Frank Deford Quotes
The Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, and Pistons are there today as sure as they were when what was good for General Motors was good for the country. Would you rather have a basketball team, or would you rather be Detroit?
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.
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I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.
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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
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Marvel has put out good product. DC has put out good product. Even Image has put out good product, as far as I'm concerned... although it's few and far between. But it's not getting recognized, no matter who's doing it.
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But if the U.S. were to leave now and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united country, that would definitely be a second mistake.
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The Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, and Pistons are there today as sure as they were when what was good for General Motors was good for the country. Would you rather have a basketball team, or would you rather be Detroit?
