Frank Carlucci Quotes
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Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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You love for a quarterback to sometimes make the decision as the rush is coming and make the decision as the play, as opposed to where that computer is hitting it fast and he's knowing where to go with the ball at the right time.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
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I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.
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Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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A big part of engaging kids in science is not getting the single, correct answer; it's being willing to work with students to discover the correct answer.
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When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
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I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.
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I don't support gay marriage. I'm just not there, as far as believing in my heart that we should change 2,000 years of social policy in favor of a redefinition of the family.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
