Frank Quotes - Page 16

• The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Home, Reality, Vivid

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• The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Philosophy, Reality, Inquiry

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• The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.

  Matt Groening

  Rocks, Ugly, Rock N Roll

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• There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Giving, Earth

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!

  Anne Baxter

  Wedding, Night, Style

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• Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve.

  Rich Little

  Years, Feet, Taught

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• I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and from Artie Shaw's verbal abuse. But George [C. Scott] was a different category of animal when he got drunk. He'd break into my hotel room, which he did in Italy, London and at the Beverly Hills Hotel, attack me to where I was frightened for my life, and scream, 'Why won't you marry me?' Well, I would never marry a man who couldn't control his liquor. Me, I'm a happy drunk. I laugh, I dance. I certainly don't break bottles and threaten to kill.

  Ava Gardner

  Animal, Men, Drunk

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• During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Three, Youth, Highways

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• Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also simple enough to be memorable. Jimmy Van Heusen was a master at this kind of song. His music was complex, with deeply rich chord changes any jazzman can embrace, but also possessed catchy, crystalline melodies of exceeding sing-ability. His songs were meant to be sung, not just listened to, and they were sung by the best, with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby at the top of that list.

  Paul Zollo

  Song, Memorable, Writing

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• You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

  Frank Gehry

  Choices, Signatures, Looks

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• I'm a big fan of [Frank] Sinatra, he was the best at what he did. The last thing I do is model my career after him, though, because we do different things. He was a great singer and a great actor ... It never crossed my mind to emulate his career, because we have different interests.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Careers, Mind, Different

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Frank Lampard is the best ever at Chelsea and one of the best I've ever played with and against in world football today, and I think what set him apart was his dedication and hard work.

  John Terry

  Football, Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Wedding, Vegas, Offering

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• To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Children, Thinking, Losing

  "Elizabeth Edwards battles breast cancer". "Dateline NBC" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. November 21, 2004.

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• Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

  Al Franken

  Bob, Be Kind, Sense Of Humor

  Interview with Richard Blow, www.motherjones.com. November, 1996.

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• What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in the temperate zones, in the most beautiful house.

  William Kittredge

  Beautiful, Twilight, House

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• I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.

  Ina Garten

  Dinner, Drink, Upbeat

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... All I wanted was to be big, to be in show-business, and to travel...and that's what I've been doing all my life.

  Count Basie

  Country, Cities, Kansas City

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• Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Doors, Boss, Argument

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Art, Secret

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• I wanted to make a fan film for a character I've always loved and believed in - a love letter to Frank Castle & his fans. It was an incredible experience with everyone on the project throwing in their time just for the fun of it. It's been a blast to be a part of from start to finish - we hope the friends of Frank enjoy watching it as much as we did making it.

  Thomas Jane

  Fun, Character, Fans

  "COMIC-CON 2012: Watch The Punisher: Dirty Laundry with Thomas Jane" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb.

  Elmer Kelton

  Book, Writing, Texas

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• My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.

  Dylan McDermott

  Dad, Sharks, Priorities

  "In Search Of Dylan McDermott". www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible

  Parker Stevenson

  Cutting, Boys, Play

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• Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

  Scott Ian

  Rocks, Guy, Insane

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