Frank Bruno Quotes
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
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What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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Technological change is never an isolated phenomenon. This revolution takes place inside a complex ecosystem which comprises business, governmental and societal dimensions. To make a country fit for the new type of innovation-driven competition, the whole ecosystem has to be considered.
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Plain white T-shirts do it for me every time. You can spend anything from £3 to £50 on a T-shirt, but I've bought some great ones from H&M, as well as shelling out on Duffer Of St George and a Polish label I discovered while filming 'Robin Hood' in Hungary called Scotch And Soda.
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If I'm not playing well, I do get down on myself because I am a perfectionist. So I need someone who believes in me more than I believe in me, someone willing to work as hard as I work. I don't understand what no means or what failure means; I only understand what yes means and try again means.
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When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'
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The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
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I still believe in marriage.
