Frank Turner (Francis Edward Turner) Quotes
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
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The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
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I love British bands.
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I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.
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I always try to slip healthy things by my kids. I give them sweet potato French fries and fake chicken nuggets.
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I love living downtown.
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It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.
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Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
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I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.
