John Frankenheimer Quotes
And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
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Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
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For me, concussion response is pure common sense. We can all probably handle a few mild concussions. I have had at least three, and despite my detractors' opinions, I am mentally and physically fine.
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The fact is that more and more people are developing a sensitivity to gluten, without necessarily being allergic to it.
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Hip-hop I never really got really into mainly just because I'm not a big fan of rap. I do like R&B artists like Beyonce. I'm a big fan of her mainly because of her vocals. They're just so awesome. I love her and Christina Aguilera, and that whole urban kind of feel is really great, especially with my voice.
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And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.
