Barney Frank Quotes
There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows you to say to the small businesses, who have been catering lunches for you, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.' It allows you to go to the workers and say, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.'
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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I have a very small public.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
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The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
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There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows you to say to the small businesses, who have been catering lunches for you, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.' It allows you to go to the workers and say, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.'
