Ford Frick Quotes
Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.Ford Frick
Quotes to Explore
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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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.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I never left doo wop.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
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'Power is always a relative concept.'-the illithid Yharaskrik
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You're not going to please everybody. I've just got to do whatever I feel is right, just use my judgment.
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I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
Ford Frick
