Frank Black Quotes
My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
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I'm not against gay people.
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I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.
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We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
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I have to hold up my end of the bargain and do what's expected of me.
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My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.
