Frank Serpico Quotes
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
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Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' – I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.'
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Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.
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The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.
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I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.
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Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
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I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'
