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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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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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 can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.
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'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
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Circumstance and settings are of no importance. One day this sense of emptiness and remorse submerges you. Then , like a tide, it ebbs and disappears. But in the end it returns in force, and she couldn’t shake it off. Nor could I?
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Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences.
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In Latin America, in the past, it was almost impossible to guarantee democracy. There were military dictatorships, and nowadays there are not so many military dictatorships. Although we have a dictator in Honduras, as a result of a coup, now as a president, he is almost the only one I would say. But again led or managed, gestated by the U.S. government.
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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.
