Ford Frick Quotes
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
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When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
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I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
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The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.
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My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word.
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While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
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The venom I witnessed in that courtroom going through this trial for the second time both terrified me and saddened me.
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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
Ford Frick
