Bill Frisell Quotes
I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.
Quotes to Explore
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled.
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The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.
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And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
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There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]
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All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!
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I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.
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I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.
