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• Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system, and set the serfs and villains free; admit that the press demolished the monasteries, nunneries, and religious houses; into whose hands did all these alienated baronies, monasteries, and religious houses and lands fall? Into the hands of the democracy? Into the hands of serfs and villains? Serfs and villains were the only real democracy in those time. No. They fell into the hands of other aristocrats. . . .

  John Adams

  Religious, Time, Real

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• As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

  Robert Zemeckis

  Character, Filmmaker, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

  George Jean Nathan

  Believe, Hero, Theatre

  Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan (1929). “The American Mercury”

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• It concerns me when I see a small child watching the hero shoot the villain on television. It is teaching the small child to believe that shooting people is heroic. The hero just did it and it was effective. It was acceptable and the hero was well thought of afterward. If enough of us find inner peace to affect the institution of television, the little child will see the hero transform the villain and bring him to a good life. He'll see the hero do something significant to serve fellow human beings. So little children will get the idea that if you want to be a hero you must help people.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Good Life, Children, Teaching

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.117, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.

  Virginia Madsen

  Writing, Play, Evil

  FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from Jan 11, 2016

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• I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be!

  John Hodgman

  Children, Wish, Monsters

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the story. They can be villains, they can be protagonists, I don't care but their movements, their actions what they do in the plot has to actually matter.

  Amy Pascal

  Jobs, Character, Important

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we know better than to always trust it, we still watch.

  Robert Redford

  Hero, Watches, Television

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I certainly play people on the edge quite a lot. I am interested in what makes people odd and what makes them different. In life I try to play the edges. I have a horror of the herd. There are many, many different sorts of people. A lot of people are fairly uninteresting. I want to play the interesting ones. The villains are always more interesting to portray. Shakespeare knew that.

  Jeremy Irons

  Play, People, Interesting

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• I don't know that I feel comfortable playing a villain; as a matter of fact I probably don't feel comfortable, which is why I like it so much. It's just an opportunity to try something different.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Opportunity, Trying, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's just, "Hey,[Barack] Obama's the hero, and he wants Obamacare," and so the coverage is totally devoted to whether or not Obama's gonna get it. Now, in that scenario, who are the villains?Well, your good old, reliable Republicans are the villains, and they are always portrayed as the people trying to deny our beloved hero what he wants.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hero, Obamacare, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.

  Justin Torres

  Animal, Thinking, Evil

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Whats great about The Avengers is that its the next step. Its not just superhero fights super-villain and superhero wins. Its about superheroes that come together and interact. Its a clash of the egos. You could do Avengers 1 without a villain, just with all these guys coming together. They could sit down and just have a discussion.

  Louis Leterrier

  Fighting, Winning, Superhero

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• Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are about surviving, and what you look like when you emerge from the trial. The reason we keep telling fairy tales over and over, that we need to keep telling them, is that the trials change. So the stories change too, and the heroines and villains and magical objects, to keep them true. Fairy tales are the closets where the world keeps its skeletons.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Skeletons, Needs, Looks

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• If somebody comes up and says, "[Barack] Obama was born in Kenya," the story becomes, "Will Obama succeed in refuting this charge and then can we make these villains making the charge look like reprobates?" No examination of the allegation or examination of the issues.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Issues, Looks, Kenya

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge. More than anything, for me as an actor, it's about challenging myself and doing as many different things as I can.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Thinking, Challenges, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If a corporation shuts down and leaves, liberals don't care. It gives them an enemy, it gives them a villain, they love to criticize them and it's got people in need, people out of work.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Giving, Enemy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's always a villain in every book, in every movie. In every story you have the hero and what he wants, and that is the MacGuffin. The whole thing is about who's gonna get the MacGuffin. This piece that this Ace of Spades blog wrote is that's how the media covers [Barack] Obama, and I have observed this in different ways over the years.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Book, Hero, Media

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Donald] Trump wanted the nomination, and all these other Republicans and their supporters didn't want Trump to have the nomination. So who became the villains? What Trump wanted became the story. "Will he get it? Will Trump get to 1,237?" Did not Ted Cruz become a villain in the middle of this by virtue of trying to stop the hero by getting delegates in all of the state conventions?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hero, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You don't get lower ratings playing the villain on reality TV.

  Van Jones

  Reality, Tvs, Rating

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.

  Charlie Brooker

  Technology, People, Weak

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.

  George Edward Moore

  Brother, Husband, Father

  "The Gamester", Act II, scene 1, as quoted Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 306-07, 1922.

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• Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.

  Van Jones

  Reality, Stuff, Tvs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The only way to describe my involvement in Planes is that its an absolute dream come true for me. Getting to be a bad guy in any project is fun, let alone being a Disney villain. I cant imagine anything getting better than that!

  Roger Craig Smith

  Dream, Fun, Guy

  "Interview With Roger Craig Smith, the Voice of Batman, Captain America, and More!". Interview with Mike Cecchini, www.denofgeek.com. August 10, 2013.

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• That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

  Scott Derrickson

  Thinking, Compelling

  Source: collider.com

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