Jonathan Frakes Quotes
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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I don't want to be on the road all my life.
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I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.
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Nothing means more to me than racing for my country, the Queen, the Royal Family, and the people back home that support me.
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You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.
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My children and their happiness have always been my greatest concern.
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In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.
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When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.
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The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
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There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.
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They say Mars absolves the warrior from the crimes of war, but those who were not the warriors, those for whom the war was said to be fought, even though they never wanted it to be fought, who absolves them?
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University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security, hardly a bastion of free speech and open government.
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Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.
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I love improv. I do it with my co-star John Michael Higgins in both 'Pitch Perfect' films.
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I think, when you survive any intense experience, people try to moralize you; a lot of people just try to raise you high, and it's so not fair to you and to everybody else.
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The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it's never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable.
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Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.
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Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.
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I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.
