Lois Frankel Quotes

I served 14 years in the state legislature and served in both the minority and majority.

Lois Frankel

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• People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Misconception

• Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • World
  • American
  • Today

• In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Know
  • Capitalism
  • Last

• Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Real
  • Worry
  • Fight

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Happy
  • Girl
  • Sad

• If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Think

• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Food
  • Favourite
  • Dish

• I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Childhood

• You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Lead

• I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Ornament
  • Graceful

• When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Done
  • Better

• When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • Best
  • Talk
  • Cards

• Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Gifts

• I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.

  

  Ellar Coltrane
  • Art

• As black Americans continue to be insulted and dismissed by protected white liberals, the Black Talented Tenth will continue to benefit from political donations, speaking engagements, national media presence, accolades as the official black leaders, and perpetual gigs on MSNBC and CNN.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Political
  • Black

• A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

  

  Max Frisch
  • Truth

• This is my favorite combo of musicians. It's one of the finest jazz groups out there. I'm just proud to be in it.

  

  Chris Botti Incognito
  • Proud
  • Jazz
  • Musicians

• Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • School
  • Respect
  • Special

• I served 14 years in the state legislature and served in both the minority and majority.

  

  Lois Frankel