George Deacon Quotes

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??

George Deacon

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• I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • College
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • You
  • Feel
  • Wrinkles

• I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Action

• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • American
  • Pilots

• They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Book
  • Page

• I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Country
  • Political
  • Posture

• The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights-the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.

  

  Walter Bagehot

• It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Strong
  • Passion

• The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Up
  • Real
  • Father

• Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State; and it is for the individual in so far as he coincides with the State . . . . It is opposed to classical Liberalism . . . . Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • True
  • Reality

• Ya white tee, well to me, look like a night gown, make ya mama proud, take that thang two sizes down.

  

  Outkast
  • Night
  • Proud

• And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing...It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.

  

  Patti Scialfa

• I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Different
  • Hope
  • Equality

• 'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Book

• Neither am I on an extreme diet nor am I on an extreme workout.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Workout

• Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Shadow
  • Lyrics

• I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Book
  • Jump

• Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • House
  • Easy
  • Company

• After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Goes On

• I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • God
  • Believe
  • End

• I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

  

  Will Durant
  • God
  • America
  • Communism

• If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??

  

  George Deacon
  • God
  • Absolute