Frank Deford Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
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I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I'm hoping they won't allow things to get in the way.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.
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The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
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Don't fight forces, use them.
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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
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Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.
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It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.
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The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.
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I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.
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Bill Russell was the pivot on which the whole sport turned.
