Garrett Fort famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
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For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.
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My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.
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Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.
-- Garrett Fort
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
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I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
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I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
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It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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