John Frankenheimer Quotes

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

John Frankenheimer

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Old
  • Lucky

• I realize that things happen for a reason.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Reason
  • Happen
  • Realize

• My hunger is always there.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Always
  • Hunger

• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • American

• In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Strong
  • Beginning

• I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!

  

  Vanity
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Jesus

• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • War
  • Me
  • President

• I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • People
  • Truth
  • History

• I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • World
  • Day

• We're all idealistic when young.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Young
  • Idealistic

• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Important
  • Create
  • Sacred

• I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Think

• We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• I enjoyed all of the tours and learned something from everyone.

  

  Oleta Adams

• For his was now the loveliest partOf the young poet's life, when first,In solitude and silence nurst,His genius rises like a springUnnoticed in its wandering;Ere winter cloud or summer rayHave chill'd, or wasted it away,

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Life
  • Silence
  • Summer

• If I had to pick a religion, I'd pick Buddhism. Buddhism is a kindly religion. It says you got a chance... it's got humor, it's got wisdom, it says to be nice to each other. All the rest of them have gods that want to beat the crap out of you if you defy the rules.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Nice
  • Rest
  • Wisdom

• When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic, and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • People
  • Moral
  • Sarcastic

• I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

  

  Elliott Yamin
  • Music
  • Age
  • Soul

• One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

  

  John Frankenheimer
  • Life