Frank Knox Quotes
Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.
Quotes to Explore
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I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.
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The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
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I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
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Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
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As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.
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I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.
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If my mother gets help from it, then I will enter politics.
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Zits are beauty marks.
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If I see a chick playing guitar, I’m drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it’s completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you’re male. I can’t help it. It’s part of my nature.
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There's something to be said about a girl who knows what she wants. One of my favorite girls to dress is Diane Kruger. It's always so easy with her. I know her body and what works. When it's right, it's not a lot of effort.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.
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...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look at the growth of knowledge … as an attempt by our mind to return to union with things as they are in their ordered wholeness…. and if we take this view, our notion of truth is marked out for us. Truth is the approximation of thought to reality … Its measure is the distance thought has travelled … toward that intelligible system … The degree of truth of a particular proposition is to be judged in the first instance by its coherence with experience as a whole, ultimately by its coherence with that further whole, all comprehensive and fully articulated, in which thought can come to rest.
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We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.
