Barney Frank Quotes
I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.
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I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.
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Backstreet Boys, we don't stop. We just keep going.
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I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.
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My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.
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I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.
