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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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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The whole process of winning the pageant has been so amazing, I'm really excited to move forward into all kinds of projects.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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While I agree completely that attracting good teachers is difficult, and we need to spend more time doing that - in part by paying them more money - I don't think there's any evidence for the idea that somehow tenure attracts good teachers. In fact, I think the evidence is to the contrary.
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In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I'd never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, 'stripeys,' which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk.
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I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.
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If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.