Anne Bancroft Quotes
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
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Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
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As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.
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I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.
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Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.
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Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.
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I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.
