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"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."
"Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you're happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up."
"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
Envy,
"However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him."
"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."
"As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things."
"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
"Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours', as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that."
"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
"Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can, Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!"
Explore more quotes by George Bancroft
"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."
"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."
"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."
"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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