Frank Deford Quotes
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One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
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I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
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I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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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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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.
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If wishes were stories, beggars would read...
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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.
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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But as the world, harmoniously confus'd, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
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If I'd started in business thinking I knew everything, I'd have been sunk before I started... Never think of learning as being a burden or studying as being boring. It may require some discipline, but it can be an adventure. It can also prepare you for a new beginning.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet.
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Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.
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I never really wanted Big Air to be in the Olympics.
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Majesty is a thing of beauty to behold, whatever the particular enterprise.
