Frankie Avalon Quotes

No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.

Frankie Avalon

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• It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Happy

• In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Possible
  • Prove
  • Recovery

• I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Mortician

• When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

  

  J. Tillman
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Episode

• If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • You
  • Path
  • Keep Going

• If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Should
  • Driving
  • Going

• I try to do as much as I can, but I simply can't shoot two films at a time.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Try
  • I Can

• Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. 'You cannot catch three fish with two hands,' the little man often said.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Time

• I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in PBS episode of American Masters

  

  Man Ray
  • American
  • Nature

• She glanced at him. 'What gods do you respect?''None.''And why not?''I help myself,' he said.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Mind

• A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

  

  Edward Albee
  • Truth

• What was this dream we had, a dream of music,Music that rose from the opening earth like magicAnd shook its beauty upon us and died away?The long cold streets extend once more before us.The red sun drops, the walls grow grey.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Music
  • Long
  • Dream

• Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.

  

  Peter Bergen

• Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

  

  Kirby Puckett

• I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Long
  • Smile

• I applaud women, and I did my best and took my time after having a kid - in a healthy way, get back to a place where I felt good in my body.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • America
  • Free

• We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.

  

  Ma Long
  • Up
  • Team
  • Lost

• There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.

  

  George Borrow

• Full disclosure: James Comey is a friend. I won't pretend to neutrality about him. He is a highly honorable and decent person, and I have no doubt that he made the many judgments for which people loathe him in good faith.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Faith
  • Friend
  • No Doubt

• No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.

  

  Frankie Avalon