Frank Dillane Quotes
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?
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While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
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My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.
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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
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I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
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I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
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I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.
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I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.
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He that thinks himself capable of astonishing may write blank verse: but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme.
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They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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I'm playing a cat burglar. I've made it. This is the high point of my career. I'm really chuffed.
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The self really is an illusion-and realizing this is the basis of spiritual life.
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One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret.
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There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
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What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.
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'Candida' was difficult: stimulating but very wordy.
