Mark Frauenfelder Quotes
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.
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As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.
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The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.
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Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
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Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.
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I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
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Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.
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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
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I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.
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If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
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No, I don't have a plan. Whatever happens happens. There's never a plan.
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The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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'Boys of Summer,' to me, is like the end of the summer, man. That heartbreaking feeling where you have to go back to school, your summer love is coming to an end, and the leaves are changing. That was always such an emotional time for me as a kid, because I loved summer so much.
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As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.
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Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?
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My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly.
