Frank James Quotes
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
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There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.
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When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn't say, 'Unless it's politically uncomfortable.'
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The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in.
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It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil.
