Frank Vincent Quotes
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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I love going to cities and getting lost. I love doing that rather than following a guidebook.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
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On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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In America, you keep on hearing productivity is low; secular stagnation, it's a new normal. It's just not true: We've had multiple wars; we're not educating our kids. We had government shut downs, badly-spent money, failures in the health system, failures and an extreme amount of regulation - that's why we're going slow.
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A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
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I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.
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We have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news.
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Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.
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It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.
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Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.
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As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
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To take the ugly language out of 'Ragtime' is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice.
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Every status update you read on Facebook, every tweet or text message you get from a friend, is competing for resources in your brain with important things like whether to put your savings in stocks or bonds, where you left your passport, or how best to reconcile with a close friend you just had an argument with.
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Our Youth is fleeting Old age is just around the bend And I can't wait to go grey And I'll sit and wonder Of every love that could have been If I'd only thought of something charming to say
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We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
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Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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'The Godfather' changed the way gangsters acted.
