Fred Frith Quotes

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

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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
  • Mood

• 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

• Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.

  

  Sly Stone
  • Friend

• Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. There is a universe of jealousy, of ambition, of selfishness or generosity. A universe - in other words a metaphysic and an attitude of mind.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I don't know if I felt successful, but I did feel a difference in my career, or in how people perceive me, or how people reacted on the street right after I did the Mexican version of 'Ugly Betty.' That show was a complete success, thank God. It broke historical ratings records in Mexico and also the U.S.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • People
  • God
  • Career

• One of the treasures of nature is beauty; this, too, should be preserved.

  

  Yehuda Levi
  • Nature
  • Should
  • Treasure

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

  

  Fred Frith Aksak Maboul