Francis Parker Yockey Quotes
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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With the policymaking process, you have an idea, and you try to sell other stakeholders on the idea. That's not much different than in business, where you're trying to find capital to make your idea a reality.
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War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.
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Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.
