George Linnaeus Banks Quotes
I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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You have to be yourself.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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I don't read the critics.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I am a normal guy.
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Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
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I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
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In the 1970s, you couldn't do a television show from Las Vegas because you couldn't find a sponsor. In my view, Las Vegas has become the place to perform versus any other place in the world.
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Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.
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I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.
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I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
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One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.
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I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.
