Frankie Cosmos Quotes

I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?'

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• Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Great
  • School

• The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Art
  • Age

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Win

• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • High
  • Going
  • Rises

• Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Never
  • Through
  • Nurse

• I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Success
  • Years
  • Building

• I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Job
  • Experience
  • Hand

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Dreams
  • Comeback
  • Second Chance

• I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Day

• Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Women
  • Star
  • Sports

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Kind
  • Audience

• We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Good
  • God
  • Important

• I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • Men
  • Family
  • Mother

• As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • America
  • Doubt
  • Socialism

• People need to understand: Businesses are going to make mistakes. They shouldn't be shot and hung every time.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People
  • Time

• I used to have quite long hair, and I decided that I wanted to get it cut. I'd never met the person who did it, and she cut it into some kind of dreadful mullet. It looked like a triangle on my head. The other kids were merciless.

  

  Jonathan Stroud
  • Long
  • She
  • Kids

• Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Why

• I had such total, unequivocal, enthusiastic encouragement to be an actress. Looking back, I really find that to be a total mystery. Don't ask me why. My father was just in love with the idea that I would be an actress.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Why
  • Father

• That's what governors do, they wrestle with the issues, they find solutions and they move the agenda forward. At the appropriate time we'll talk about all of these issues, while remembering that our party is a big tent party. We lose when we try to become exclusive to one particular set of issues.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • Time
  • Party

• I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?'

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Why