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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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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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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My biggest competitor? Myself, mentally.
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I'm a mix of a 14-year-old high schooler and a 60-year-old guy. It can never fall into the 30s or the 40s. It has to be 100 percent 60 or 100 percent 14, no in between.
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All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.
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I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
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Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?
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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.
