Frank Mertens (Frank Sorgatz) Quotes
I am shy and I don't like to talk. I prefer to look and listen. Marian and Bernhard talk quite enough.
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I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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What I do for a living is listen.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
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I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
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I'm terribly, horribly shy.
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Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
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We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.
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Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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Sometimes you have to ask the question as if it's going to be your last question - as if it's going to be the last time you talk to that person.
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I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.
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Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.
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I am shy and I don't like to talk. I prefer to look and listen. Marian and Bernhard talk quite enough.
