Frankie Cosmos Quotes

I try to not assume things are sexism. I'm trying to be good natured about why things are happening.

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• I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

  

  B. B. King
  • Want
  • Wonder
  • Talent

• The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Law
  • Light
  • Nutrition

• This town was built on nepotism.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Built
  • Town
  • Nepotism

• The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

  

  Larry Elder
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Sometimes
  • Lose
  • Sight

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mind

• As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

  

  Edmund White
  • Together
  • Me
  • Identity

• I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!

  

  Cara Black
  • Motorcycle
  • Once
  • Morocco

• There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Mom

• Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Work
  • Spiritual
  • Meaning

• I love my camera crews on all my jobs. It's the half of the job that the audience never gets to see. They're integral. They're as much a part of making a movie or television show as I am.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • Audience
  • See

• If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Why
  • Media
  • Everyone

• What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Moments
  • Reflection
  • Pure

• My children are my life. They're so spectacular.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Children
  • My Life

• I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Different
  • School
  • Dad

• I don't really believe in evil at all.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Believe
  • Evil
  • Really

• Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Up
  • Money
  • Blue

• The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • Spiritual
  • Dangerous

• When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it's the best coffee,' and I thought, 'How good could it really be?' I'm like, 'Sure, great, uh... I'd love to see it.' But then when I went, it truly, I am not kidding, is the best coffee I have ever had.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • Money
  • Why
  • Cleaning

• When you're a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they're constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• I think I would be more suited to the couture side of the business!

  

  Christian Dior
  • Business

• I try to not assume things are sexism. I'm trying to be good natured about why things are happening.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
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