Fred Frith Quotes

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

Fred Frith Aksak Maboul

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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.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Guy

• When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Myself
  • Interested

• To me, my business is my life.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Life
  • Business
  • My Life

• My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Balance
  • Theory
  • Key

• I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Leaving
  • Being
  • Big

• 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?

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Friends
  • Funny
  • Donna

• 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
  • Broken
  • Feet
  • February

• The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Science
  • Lies
  • Claim

• 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.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • People
  • Work
  • Brand

• I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Play
  • Wind
  • How

• There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Influence
  • Teachers

• I grew up with reggae music.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Up
  • Music
  • Reggae

• 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.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Philosophy
  • Possible

• 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.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Up
  • Different
  • Kind

• 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.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Great
  • Love
  • America

• The whole process of winning the pageant has been so amazing, I'm really excited to move forward into all kinds of projects.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Amazing
  • Winning
  • Process

• Im in the public eye. I know Im not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

  

  Nicole Appleton All Saints
  • Eye
  • Walking
  • Persons

• It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Greatness

• My dogs are crazy. They're always getting into some kind of trouble... but then again, they're my most loyal friends.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Friends
  • Kind
  • Crazy

• In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because I'm saying, "Look, these are things that have happened to me, but how odd they are or how ordinary they are [is up to the reader to decide]."

  

  Paul Auster
  • Kind
  • Distance
  • Able

• I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Different
  • Play
  • Stories

• If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

  

  Fred Frith Aksak Maboul