Adam Frank Quotes
People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what's deeper.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
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I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
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When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
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Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, 'Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.' Racist people never go, 'Do you mind if I'm racist? Oh, I'll go outside … fucking blue people, eh? Coming here, steal our hamsters …'
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L'offenseur ne pardonne jamais.1
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You know, if they can do this to me they can do this to anybody, and they have been doing this for over sixty years . . . . it’s a very strange world.
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To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost.
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Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.
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Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
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When I was growing up, I was watching Steffi... she taught me, actually, that I'm on a good way and try to believe in myself.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.
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The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".
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I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.
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My parents, in their 40s, moved to a different country, started a business, bought a house, didn't speak the language, raised two kids - it's kind of amazing.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.
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People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what's deeper.
