Joachim Frank Quotes
I think I have a heavily compartmentalized brain, which means that certain routines are simply running without me realizing it.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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I want to be an activist professor.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.
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What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.
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When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you.
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Part of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet to where we need to be in terms of a new order that's based on a different set of principles, that's based on a sense of common humanity, that's based on economies that work for all people.
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I think I have a heavily compartmentalized brain, which means that certain routines are simply running without me realizing it.
