Humphrey Bogart Quotes
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
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I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.
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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
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Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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The town’s lack of special quirks was almost a peculiarity in itself.
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At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.
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You've got to have confidence that the universe is working out for you.
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The whole world is about three drinks behind.
