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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I can't get no respect.
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Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
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How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?
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I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.
