Barney Frank Quotes
I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you 'I'll never fall in love again.' It's meant to teach you 'Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love - and thanks to this breakup I'm now better able to recognize it and snag it!'
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I never left doo wop.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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Trees are your best antiques.
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We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.
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Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.
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We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
