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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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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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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I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.
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Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
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I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from politics.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.
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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.
