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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Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.
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Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.
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For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'
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No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.
