Barney Frank Quotes
It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.
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The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
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As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
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...without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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Lucifer in the flesh, I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
