Frankie Ballard Quotes
Before you have a hit song, all you're doing is banging on the door and screaming, 'I've got something I want to play...' Now with the hit songs, they're like, 'Okay man, we're listening. Whaddya got for us?'
Quotes to Explore
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
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I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.
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Before you have a hit song, all you're doing is banging on the door and screaming, 'I've got something I want to play...' Now with the hit songs, they're like, 'Okay man, we're listening. Whaddya got for us?'
