Frank Oz Quotes
The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like - who are very talented.
Quotes to Explore
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
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All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
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When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.
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You know, I've virtually never been chatted up in my life, it's true.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.
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The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like - who are very talented.
