George Davis Herron Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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There as here, passions are the motive of all action, but they are livelier, more ardent, or merely simpler and purer, thereby assuming a totally different character. All the first movements of nature are good and right.
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In truth, elite education has become a cattle brand. It signifies lots of things other than knowledge: for some, politically correct certification; for others, good test scores and grades that got them in; for a few, later entry into the alumni ranks of high business, law, academia, government, and the media.
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The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.
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Sometimes it does me good to look back at the days when the living wasn't so good. I remember in 1945 the dressing-rooms were gone, the park was in ruins, no stand, nothing.
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Most of my favorite fictional couples are distinctly different. Light and dark, good and evil, boring and wild... whatever! They're more fun to experience and definitely more fun to write. You have all these levels, and you know they're not going to react to situations the same way.
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What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.
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Out of the blue, I received this offer and invitation to be a part of this movie, 'The Good Dinosaur.' I turned to my Pixar experts, my kids, and asked them what this could all be about. Of course, they flipped out, and it was pretty obvious from their reaction that I was going to do this.
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.
