George Davis Herron Quotes
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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
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When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
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A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.
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I think it's good to live an artful life.
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
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It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.
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I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts - that's not what I think of as sexy.
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I like a good cleanse in the morning, and I use 'Cetaphil', which is cheap but really works.
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That was not the way I wanted to come out and play. It was disappointing, especially the way the offense played this season. We couldn't hit any big plays or establish anything to build on. They did a good job, but I still didn't protect the ball, and that's what it comes down to in big games.
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It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.
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Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
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I don't have anything against SyCo or 'X Factor' or any of that. I'm just a guy who got really afraid of not being in control.
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No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.
