Frank A. Clark Quotes
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.
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There is no one who ever acts honestly in the administration of states, nor any helper who will save any one who maintains the cause of the just.
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If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.
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At the corporation, we believe one of the most critical issues facing the country is the preparation of America's teachers, which is just not good enough. Creating a vision for change and sharing how to improve teacher preparation is something the corporation is committed to.
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I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
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A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
