Barney Frank Quotes
I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.
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It's never been our intention to sell millions of albums, but if our message touches that many people, then so be it.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
