Frank Rizzo Quotes

The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.

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• Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Band
  • Involved
  • Gym Class

• But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Music
  • Voice

• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

  

  Ice T
  • Control
  • Party
  • Rock

• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Success
  • Stopped
  • Boston

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Truth
  • True

• Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

  

  Becky G
  • Real
  • Love
  • Artist

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Money
  • Focus

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • America
  • Quite

• Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

  

  Nas
  • Want
  • Hip Hop
  • Forward

• It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • Think
  • Perfect

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• I just sing. You have to use it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • You
  • Just
  • Sing

• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Role

• The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Forever
  • Fence

• My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Head
  • Standing

• Hopefully standup will become special again.

  

  Marc Maron

• If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • World
  • Job

• I change my thoughts, I change my world.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • World
  • Change
  • Thoughts

• I feel like artists and their lyrics are something that people can relate to when it comes to love and break-ups. I really want people to know how I felt when I went through a break up, when I really felt alive, and everything in between.

  

  Jessica Sanchez
  • People
  • Up
  • Lyrics

• The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.

  

  Frank Rizzo
  • People