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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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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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've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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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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The Kitchen was a really great concept; it just wasn't at the price point that made it accessible to people. People could visit occasionally, and some people were coming regularly. It just wasn't a novel concept for every customer.
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I think there's a social responsibility that comes with a public platform. Because of the position that I've been put in, I think it's important to use my voice to do as much as I can.
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When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
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My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.
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If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.
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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.
