John Frankenheimer Quotes
One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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My hunger is always there.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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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.
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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.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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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.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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I draw inspiration from my life, and, honestly, a lot of my religious beliefs have stemmed into my music.
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My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.
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One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.
