George Sewell Quotes

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Great
  • Music
  • Daughter

• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Propaganda
  • Momentum
  • Masses

• Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Think
  • Death
  • Better

• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Know
  • Learn

• I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • God
  • Friends

• When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Men
  • Women
  • Cooking

• If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • American
  • Words

• Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Done
  • Said
  • Returns

• I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Model
  • Beauty
  • Conform

• My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Life
  • Audience
  • My Life

• As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Kind
  • Guys
  • Perform

• My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • World
  • Amazing
  • Travel

• I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Up
  • Black
  • Myself

• As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Time
  • Live
  • Love

• People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Success
  • Poet

• I never really had them. I always get the eccentric kids who dress funny and sit and write poetry for three months in their bedrooms......I was going to see tons of shows when I was a teenager, so if I was a girl, would that have made me a groupie? If I wanted to shake Thurston Moore's hand or something?

  

  Beck
  • Kids
  • Girl
  • Funny

• When seen as a whole, art derives from a person's desire to communicate himself to another. I do not believe in an art which is not forced into existence by a human being’s desire to open his heart. All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.

  

  Edvard Munch
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I think the press mistakenly thought that all of these 'mumblecore' filmmakers were banded together in a similar ideology, but the truth is that we were all just using the same digital camera and helping each other make our movies because we were broke, and we were the only idiots willing to do it.

  

  Jay Duplass
  • Truth
  • Together

• I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Success

• I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out of high school, get a job, get married, have kids and die in Jersey. I wanted more.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • People
  • School
  • Job

• The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Drama
  • Moment

• Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

  

  George Sewell
  • Fear
  • Guilt
  • Tax