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?
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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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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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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People like Mr Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
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This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.
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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?
