Frank Yerby Quotes
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
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I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.
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I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
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I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
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The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,But at every gust the dead leaves fall,And the day is dark and dreary.
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A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind.
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You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.
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Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.
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What do you mean 'gangsters'? It's business.
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Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.
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I’m very lucky. I have terrific parents, but some kids have a really rotten time growing up and we should do all that we can to make their lives happier and more secure.
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Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.
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(On Standards & Practices): 'Where are your standards?....Stupid to retarded, is that the level of standards you’re trying to put out to America?'
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No one can figure out your worth but you.
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My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
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The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
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When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.
