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NORMAN MAILER I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.
PATSY CLINE A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.
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ADAM OSBORNE Good Godfrey!
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DEYTH BANGER I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
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ARTHUR GODFREY Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get Genera...
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BLANTON GODFREY The police met with our group and they said crime and drug dealing is way down. It's unbelievable.
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DENNIS GODFREY We deserve an explanation, in the very least.
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ALLAN BLOOM There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth...
ALLAN BLOOM Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disap...
ALLAN BLOOM People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginativ...
HAROLD BLOOM I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike
HAROLD BLOOM We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The sheph...
ALLAN BLOOM The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --t...
ALLAN BLOOM The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the ...
ALLAN BLOOM There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a m...
ALLAN BLOOM There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magi...
ALLAN BLOOM How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
ORLANDO BLOOM If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
ORLANDO BLOOM Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
ORLANDO BLOOM On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the...
PAUL BLOOM Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just ...
RACHEL BLOOM The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. ...
PAUL BLOOM I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent an...
ORLANDO BLOOM When it comes to meals, there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways.
ORLANDO BLOOM I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have...
ORLANDO BLOOM As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so ex...
ORLANDO BLOOM We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitud...
PAUL BLOOM It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group t...
PAUL BLOOM Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the...
ALLAN BLOOM We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate m...
PAUL BLOOM I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by t...
PAUL BLOOM Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the en...
PAUL BLOOM The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum phys...
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