Barney Frank Quotes
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.
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If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.
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I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.
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The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.
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Taste is the feminine of genius.
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Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
