Chris Frantz Quotes
We're the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.
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We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
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For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
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When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.
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Emil was already familiar with those people who always say, “Goodness, everything was better in the old days.” And he no longer listened when people told him that in the old days the air was cleaner or that cows had bigger heads. Because it usually wasn’t true. Those people simply wanted to be dissatisfied, because otherwise they would have to be satisfied.
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Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.
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32 in modeling years is like 60.
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We're the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.
