Bob Frankston Quotes
This is an important part of the Internet Dynamic - providing opportunity and not guarantees.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original.
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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.
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My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
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He Simon Cowell is actually very lovely in real life. We share the same interests, and he shares my love for animals as well.
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I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
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Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.
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This is an important part of the Internet Dynamic - providing opportunity and not guarantees.
