Adam Frank Quotes
Life was not just a patchy green scruff holding a tenuous position between rock and air; instead, it was a planetary power as important as volcanoes and tides. It was an active force shaping the complex multibillion-year history of the world.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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The hardest thing for me is restraint. I see fresh beans and ramps, and I start to quiver.
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Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.
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We celebrate the past to awaken the future.
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
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Life was not just a patchy green scruff holding a tenuous position between rock and air; instead, it was a planetary power as important as volcanoes and tides. It was an active force shaping the complex multibillion-year history of the world.
