Frank Capra Quotes
Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
Quotes to Explore
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While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.
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Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.
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As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
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An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.
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Whatever happens, I cannot be a silent witness to murder or torture. Anyone who is a partner in this is a despicable individual. I am sorry I cannot be moderate about it...
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Now there's no more oak oppressionFor they passed a noble lawAnd the trees are all kept equalBy hatchet, axe and saw - The Trees (1978)
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'Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.'
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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My airplanes are necessary machines, as necessary to this business as our meat slicers.
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Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms, these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted straight from literature and yet, life successfully aping art, they are alive, and fulfil their destinies - or act their parts - flawlessly.
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What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.
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Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
