Frank Capra Quotes

Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

Frank Capra

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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?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • War
  • Freedom

• I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Study
  • Rich

• 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.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • History
  • Humanity
  • Language

• I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Think
  • Brand
  • Luxury

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Reason
  • Enemy
  • Grandparents

• If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Learn
  • Laugh
  • Grow

• 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.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Work
  • May
  • Together

• This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Kids
  • Me

• My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Father
  • Hurt
  • Elbow

• 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.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Great
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Song
  • Feelings
  • Tenderness

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • American
  • Reading

• 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.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

  

  Aeschines
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Community

• 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...

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Sorry
  • Partner

• 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)

  

  Neil Peart Rush

• 'Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.'

  

  Ben Folds
  • Music
  • Silence

• It wasn't just Shia that would go to Tehran and see the commander of the Quds Force and others and the legitimate government leaders. It was also Kurdish leaders and Sunni Arabs who would even link up with Qassim Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force - maybe not in Tehran but in Turkey or somewhere else.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Up

• I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist.'

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Poetry

• A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Men
  • Responsibility

• Out of every other rap guy, Wiz is the most humble, down-to-earth guy, like me.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Rap

• I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Good
  • Different
  • Inspired

• Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

  

  Frank Capra