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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Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.
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The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.
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If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
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A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.
