Frank Deford Quotes
On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.
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My health is fine.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.
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I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.
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Death is nature’s way of saying, Your table is ready.
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Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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Balance isn't either/or; it's 'and'.
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On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.
