"Power is always a corrupting influence." — Charles Dance
"Power is always a corrupting influence."
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Charles Dance
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23 Quotes by Charles Dance
Charles Dance has 23 quotes on this site.
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By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of…
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You have to be selfish to be an actor.
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I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem…
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If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have…
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A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what…
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I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and…
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I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.
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It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching…
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Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.
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When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
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You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.
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Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go…
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More Corrupting Quotes
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one of 62 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours,…
— P T Barnum
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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in…
— Saul Alinsky
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Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
— James F. Cooper
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If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept…
— Ayn Rand
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The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that…
— Susan Sontag
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If someone wants to do drugs ... as long as he or she isn't corrupting minors or driving under the…
— Brad Pitt
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
— Daniel Ellsberg
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Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
— Euripides
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The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent…
— Lachlan Murdoch
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It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion…
— James Madison
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My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis…
— Jack Nicholson
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The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
— Francois Mauriac
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