George Stillman Hillard Quotes
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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
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Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
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Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
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Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
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There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
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An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
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I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.
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We didn't play as well as we can and we're not getting carried away.
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I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
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No soul willfully does wrong.
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I believe that in fact it would be economically reasonable and logical to reach a compromise [on oil production], I am sure that everybody understands this.
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I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.
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Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.
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Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?
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Major danger lie for America? That we could very well be defeated oversees and at home. And the source of it is clearly that we have yet to find a politician in either partywho's willing to tell the American people the truth.
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A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.
