Frank Quotes - Page 14

• The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

  Moliere

  Philosophy, Heart, Exercise

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• The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Honesty, Barbara, Response

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• To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Sex, Ignorance, Race

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• My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.

  Kitty Kelley

  Happiness, Sadness, Men

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• Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

  Frank Stella

  Invention, Rigor, Stella

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Everybody recommended me to Sinatra and Don Costa, because everybody was enjoying my music. I got a big following going on. Nino (Tempo) told Don Costa "you gotta come see this guy." And that's how Don Costa heard about me, through Nino Tempo. Then, Don Costa brought me to the attention of Frank Sinatra and Reprise Records.

  Trini Lopez

  Guy, Attention, Records

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• Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend a great deal of time playing the piano because it really is my salvation at times. But I am perfectly happy just going on a long bike ride that takes many days to complete and staying away from music for a bit. It always feels so fresh when you return to the instrument with a different observation of things than when you were last there.

  Tony MacAlpine

  Piano, Long, Different

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• I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.

  John Frusciante

  Song, Crazy, Moving

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• As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Knowing, Genius, Ifs

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• I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Parent, Stones, Excited

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• I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

  Brett Eldredge

  Grandpa, Car, Listening

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• Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Book, Reality, Diaries

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• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

  Manny Farber

  Art, Light, Evening

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• Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

  Matthew Modine

  Thinking, Actors, Used

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• One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.

  David O. Russell

  Years, Age, Enchantment

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• Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Girl, Monkeys, Care

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.

  Jim Woodring

  Character, America, Ties

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.

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• Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

  Gabriel Macht

  Vision, Directors, Achieve

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.

  Tom Verlaine

  Sound, Littles, Stuff

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• People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

  Rick Wakeman

  People, Zappa, Brits

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• My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

  Tom Waits

  Thinking, Gigs, Firsts

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• I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.

  Terry Pratchett

  Couple, Past, Government

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• And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.

  Donna Tartt

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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• The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.

  Charlie Pierce

  Wall, Shadow, Monsters

  "The Lonely War Of Marlin Stutzman" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2013.

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