Fred Frith Quotes
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If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don't believe he belongs. I don't believe that there are any guys that did cheat, in that respect, that are in the Hall of Fame. So I think opening up the doors to guys that admittedly cheated or are proven that they did cheat, it kills the integrity of what the Hall of Fame stands for.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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To me, my business is my life.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Gail Devers -
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
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We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.
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I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'
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There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
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I grew up with reggae music.
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I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.
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In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.
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My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.
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Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
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I knew I wanted to be a professional triathlete, but I didn't know it was possible until I won the junior champs. My dad said I should give Cambridge a go to see if I could do both, but it was only ever a trial.
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Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce.
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With just enough of learning to misquote.
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If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
