Frankie Cosmos Quotes
There've been times on tour when people have said to us, 'Yeah, your band is really simple.' But it's really not.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.
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I hope I continue to learn. If I don't, then I know everything.
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O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven
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Thalberg wanted commercial hits. I wanted art.
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Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless. Although I may try to describe love, when I experience it, I am speechless. Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless. My pen breaks, and the paper slips away at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one. Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.
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There've been times on tour when people have said to us, 'Yeah, your band is really simple.' But it's really not.
