Ford Frick Quotes

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• If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Game
  • Know
  • Better

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Nature
  • Right
  • Been

• I never left doo wop.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Never
  • Left

• Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • History
  • Generation
  • Irish

• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Father
  • Education
  • Poor

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Greatest
  • Cunning
  • None

• As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Long
  • Know

• Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Architecture
  • Republican

• That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Judging
  • Surprise

• You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.

  

  M.I.A.
  • America
  • You
  • Years

• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Ride

• The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Important
  • Done

• Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Knowledge
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Dad
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• When you're doing a different kind of film, you have to bring a different kind of attitude; you have to bring a different kind of concentration.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Different
  • Attitude

• Jon Tester needs to be held accountable for his extreme partisan liberal record of supporting President Obama's judicial nominees 99% of the time but then opposing President Trump's nominees.

  

  Matt Rosendale
  • Time
  • Trump

• I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • God
  • Understand
  • Curious

• The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

  

  Beth Simone Noveck
  • Work
  • Together
  • Distance

• I don't have family in this business. I had two parents that loved me, that worked 24-7, and this is what instilled hard work in me. So you hear the stories about my upbringing, my religion.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Work
  • Family
  • Business

• Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Find
  • Trouble