Barney Frank Quotes
This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.
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Acting is a very weird job. But if you know you're an actor, you just have to do it. You can't do anything else.
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The concept of lifetime employment arose when Japanese managers and employees both realized that they had much in common and that they had to make some long-range plans.
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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
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You must find something you want to live for that's bigger than yourself - a mission - whether it's your children, a business, a non-profit, whatever. That pulls you to achieve, which is far more sustainable than to push yourself to. You can only push yourself for so long.
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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
