Fred Frith Quotes
I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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In Europe, we see the underlying strength of the economy, especially in southern European countries.
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The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'
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We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.
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I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.
