Frank Deford Quotes
It's fascinating, isn't it, that whereas so many of our statues have been of military leaders, now it may well be sports stars who are the ones more likely to be so honored.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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Even though the moniker 'Vanilla ISIS' is tongue in cheek, it is a reminder to avoid constantly framing the concept of terrorism through an Islam-centric lens.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.
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Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country, was 'socialist.' The concept of the 'minimum wage' was seen as a radical intrusion into the marketplace and was described as 'socialist.'
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.
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Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.
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It's fascinating, isn't it, that whereas so many of our statues have been of military leaders, now it may well be sports stars who are the ones more likely to be so honored.
