Frank Quotes - Page 15

• The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.

  Benjamin Mkapa

  Ideas, Decision, Brotherhood

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• My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.

  Billy Joe Saunders

  Patient, Trainers, Promoters

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• I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Kids, Film

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• Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, Reason, Enjoyed

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in which our bodies betray us or rescue us by insisting on their own non-negotiable truths. Anything but frank or pragmatic.

  Catherine Brady

  Desire, Body, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.

  William Monahan

  United States, Bills, Classic

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

  Douglas Adams

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. November 8, 2000.

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• So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, People, World

  Source: www.stopsmilingonline.com

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• Frank Johnson was recognized as one of the great federal judges of American history, I suppose. He was a law-and-order judge. He was a classical, I think, conservative. But he believed that civil rights provided in the Constitution applied to everybody.

  Jeff Sessions

  Thinking, Rights, Order

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Coming up, at 89 years old, acclaimed sculptor Gerson Frank was finally able to marry his longtime partner, Bill. Their relationship has covered three decades and seen many changes in gay rights, but Gerson never viewed himself as an activist.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Gay, Rights, Years

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• Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Art, Mad

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.

  Ishmael Reed

  White, Feminist, Racist

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I was able to put something back. I was able to be of help to [Frank Sinatra] when he needed my help - and he did need somebody's help.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Needs, Able, Helping

  Source: www.dailypress.com

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• As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Morning, Opposites, People

  "Full transcript of AP interview with Syrian President Assad". Interview, www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2016.

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• As I look back on it now, I'm thinking of one very vital factor, that one factor being that I was afforded the luxury - the luxurious opportunity - of finally being able to put something back. As a child growing up, it was his [Frank Sinatra] efforts that put a roof over my head, food in my stomach, clothes on my back, and that got me an education and sent me to the doctor when I was sick. All those things a child could benefit from parent. I did not want to be in a position where all I had ever done was take, take, take, frankly.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Children, Growing Up, Opportunity

  "A recent interview with Frank Sinatra Jr., who died this week". Interview with Mike Holtzclaw, www.dailypress.com. March 17, 2016.

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• The media, I think, have to be accountable for some of the misdirection that is put forward in politics in some of the misapprehension, maybe even some of the lack of confidence in the political process. Because the most benign, frank thought can be twisted and portrayed as something that it really wasn't intended to.

  Cory Bernardi

  Thinking, Media, Political

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?

  Burton Silverman

  Taken, Museums, People

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• For some years now, I've been doing a program called "Sinatra Sings Sinatra." It's been going on virtually since the end of '98. Nineteen ninety-eight was the year Frank Sinatra died. ... Now having reached what would have been his 100th year - I decided back in 2013 when we started to put all of this together, I decided what we should do was the first "Sinatra Sings Sinatra" in which we go audio visual.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Eight, Years, Together

  Source: www.news-journalonline.com

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• I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but perhaps, above all literary critics, I'm indebted to Wayne Booth (several people have suggested to me that I'm trying to reinvent "ethical criticism").

  Philip Kitcher

  People, Criticism, Trying

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When I used to watch vaudevillian impressionists, people like Rich Little or Frank Gorshin, I always felt like the voice was the only point. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to be of the Robin Williams or Jonathan Winters model, where observation and storytelling was important.

  Frank Caliendo

  Winter, Voice, People

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• , I have a friend living as a woman. But she's almost too "normal," to be quite frank. I'm not relying on her, because "The Jerry Springer Show" has such huge characters. I'm trying to come up with a little more dysfunction than that.

  Max von Essen

  Character, Dysfunction, Trying

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• According to Hollywood logic, none of the actual Titanic passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.

  Paul Rudnick

  Couple, Interesting, Giving

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• Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. Twain wrote 'Tom Sawyer' at 41 and bettered it with 'Huckleberry Finn' at 50; Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim Museum until his death at 91.

  David Galenson

  Museums, Names, Frost

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• I'm moved by us, our quirks and mistakes. I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress. I'm one of those people who sees Frank Zappa in a cup of coffee, or elephants wrestling in clouds. But also, conscious creation of all kinds moves me. And a divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire.

  Idara Victor

  Art, Mistake, Coffee

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• This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.

  Ian Bogost

  Mean, World, Want

  Source: app.longform.org

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