George Bancroft Quotes
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
George Bancroft
Quotes to Explore
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
Ed Gillespie
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
Adam Jones
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
Wendell Pierce
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
Gary Allan
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Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
Peter Ustinov
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To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
Ion Tiriac
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I just want to work with the big people and the people who make great music.
Daystar Peterson
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For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way.
T. R. Pearson
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Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
George Bancroft
