Lois Frankel Quotes
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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A child who has overcome challenges with proper emotional support will emerge stronger.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
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I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.
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It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done it. That's why I am endorsing Texas Governor Rick Perry for President.
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Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
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Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
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I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.
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I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.
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Human beings cannot endure emptiness and desolation; they will fill the vacuum by creating a new focus of meaning. The idols of fundamentalism are not good substitutes for God; if we are to create a vibrant new faith for the twenty-first century, we should, perhaps, ponder the history of God for some lessons and warnings.
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If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to dissenting beliefs in small, insidious steps. They begin by saying, 'We're the righteous, and we'll tolerate those others.' And as the toleration diminishes over time, the inevitable harms are overlooked. It is for that reason that James Madison wisely wrote that 'it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties'.
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We once did six tours of America in 15 months.
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In bed by herself: adorable condition.
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All polling places should be safe, without discrimination against any religion.
