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 try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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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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My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly, which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never before seen in this country.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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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.
