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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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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Oh Carol, don't let him steal your heart away I'm gonna learn to dance if it takes me all night and day
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I do believe in 'forever' in terms of relationships. There's something really amazing about being with someone for a long time and really knowing each other in that way. They end up becoming your closest friend.
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My father has the most tremendous personality and wonderful looks - he looks like Fredric March.
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I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.
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...our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.
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Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.
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Majesty is a thing of beauty to behold, whatever the particular enterprise.
