Robert Frost Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
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The Spitzer ticket misses the point. The way to create jobs and improve the climate for businesses is to cut taxes and control spending.
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The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.
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Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.
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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
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The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.
