- George Bancroft
(10/03/1800 – 01/17/1891)
US historian, statesman
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"I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others."
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"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."
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| "The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men." |
"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive..."
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"What I am after is the first impression—I want to show all one sees on first entering the room—what my eye takes in at first glance."
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"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."
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| "Where they got you stationed now, Luke?" "At the p-p-p-present time in Norfolk at the Navy base, m-m-making the world safe for hypocrisy." |
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"Like Webster's Dictionary, we're Morocco bound!"
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"A dead atheist is someone who's all dressed up with no place to go."
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"With history one can never be certain, but I think I can safely say that Aristotle Onassis would not have married Mrs. Khrushchev."
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| "I want my flowers while I'm alive. I can't smell them when I'm dead. I will not have the music business ignore my position in the industry." |  |
"Groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having."
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| "Farrah is uniquely suited to play a woman of limited intelligence." |
"These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up."
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"The issue of government is not to determine who may sleep together in the bedroom, it's to help those that might not be eating in the kitchen."
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"The way I like to look at it is....if that's the last time I ever got to play, I'd better give it everything I've got."
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"Getting married in four days was the biggest ... mistake I've ever made. I have two beautiful kids, but ... how can you know somebody in four days? Bonehead."
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"Being in a band you can wear whatever you want—it's like an excuse for halloween every day."
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"I figure when I'm 50 and broke, I'll want to do another one. Maybe my character, Sidney, has been in an insane asylum for all these years. She breaks out and becomes a killer herself."
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"Clean underwear? Are you kidding me!?"
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| Born 10/02 | Born 10/03 | Born 10/04 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 10/02 | Died 10/03 | Died 10/04 | Death Dates |