Frank Deford Quotes
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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Around-the-clock support is crucial for children receiving palliative care. They and their families often need help every hour of every day, both in hospices and at home.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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The first house I bought was a little Spanish bungalow on Clinton Street in West Hollywood, right behind the Improv. I was renting it, and I asked the owners if I could buy it, and they were really nice and let me work out a deal. And I fixed it up and later sold it. That was when I realized that if you make some improvements, you can make money.
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
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I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.
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I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.
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'Good Morning America' is television to a fare-thee-well.
