Fred Frith Quotes

Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.

Fred Frith Aksak Maboul

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• Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Hurt
  • Dog

• Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Think
  • Alone
  • Thought

• My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Human

• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Future
  • Same
  • Diversity

• When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Career
  • Film
  • Goal

• 'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Power
  • America
  • Control

• This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Why
  • Think
  • Girl

• We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Rules
  • August

• Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Moments
  • Sleep
  • Self

• I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Thought
  • Movies
  • Loved

• We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Cast

• To be honest, a lot of ride-alongs are not that great. There might be one or two calls on the radio - not a lot - depending on what time you go.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Time
  • Great
  • Radio

• By being friends with all, we are not alone.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Friends
  • Alone
  • Being

• I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• Even the most 'Rational' people - the ones who claimed not to have a religion - were just as chauvinistic about their irreligion, sneering at and ostracizing the believers just the way the believers treated nonmembers of their own groups. It's a human universal.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People

• No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Charity

• I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

  

  Curt Schilling
  • Guy

• Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Power

• Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Experiences

• I'm popular in the United States and I'm popular in England. England is just more concentrated. The people are closer together. Venues are closer together. Many albums of mine have been popular in England, but, no hit singles. All the hit singles I had were before I went to England. So, I'm not necessarily more popular in England, I'm just popular in England, and more so for my performances than hit records. But, I enjoy doing concert halls all over America, England, Scotland and Australia.

  

  Jack Jones
  • People
  • America
  • Together

• Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.

  

  Fred Frith Aksak Maboul