Frank Quotes - Page 22

• We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

  Peter Cook

  Statistics, Language

  1961 Impersonation of Harold Macmillan. Beyond the Fringe.

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• One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.

  Larry King

  Inspirational, Yelling, People

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• Frank went out for baseball and while he wasn't very good, it wasn't a total loss. The coach used him as a pattern to drawn the on-deck circle.

  Pat Williams

  Baseball, Loss, Circles

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• When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ... We now lavishly praise Frank Lloyd Wright, but we never made any community use of him, though he longed for the chance.

  Paul Goodman

  Artist, Men, Community

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 153), 1956.

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• You have that Frank Capra kind of side to it and the characters are really well drawn, so I think everybody tried their best to stay faithful to the script.

  Jeff Bridges

  Character, Thinking, Faithful

  "Jeff Bridges Is Making a Porno in The Amateurs". MovieWeb Interview, www.movieweb.com. December 6, 2007.

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• I've always been fond of the advice I once heard from Robert Frank, "Keep your eyes open."

  Michael Almereyda

  Eye, Advice, Heard

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an emotional thrust to singing that way that I wanted to try on my own. I can't really sing deep and strong like that, but I wanted to just aim in that direction.

  Panda Bear

  Strong, Emotional, Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I always refer back to the days of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Rat Pack. Back when everyone wore a suit because that's what it was to be an entertainer. You were stylish and you were fly, and it was an effortless fly.

  Ne-Yo

  Back When, Rats, Suits

  "A Blogger & A Gentleman: Buzzworthy Goes Backstage With Ne-Yo". Interview with Tamar Anitai, www.mtv.com. June 11, 2008.

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• What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.

  Alan Menken

  People, Musical, Regimes

  Source: collider.com

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• When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.

  Kirk Douglas

  People, Wayne, Lancaster

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Anderson isn't qualified to make Frank Mir a sandwich

  Chael Sonnen

  Sandwiches, Qualified

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• I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

  John Ford

  Simple, Directors, Film

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• When I was working with Robert Frank, he told me that there was absolutely no relationship between cinema and photography. I challenge that. Surely what you know as a photographer must impact how you set up your shots.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Impact, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.

  Eileen Myles

  People, Care

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• But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.

  Chaka Khan

  Song, My Sister, Dori

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• I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Thinking, Singers, Pops

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.

  Mary Schapiro

  Writing, Thinking, Agency

  "SEC Head Mary Schapiro To Step Down This Week". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 11, 2012.

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• Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.

  Mary Schapiro

  Writing, Law, Done

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• If you ask [my brother Frank Shamrock], I smoke crack, I do steroids and I cut myself (to get out of the Kimbo Slice fight). I mean you name it, I've done it -- just ask him.

  Ken Shamrock

  Brother, Mean, Fighting

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• One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

  Stanley Kubrick

  People, Doe

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• I was just interested in directing. So I just kept having a go at trying to write little scripts and get things together, and my wife just had a slip of the tongue and said, "Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life" when she meant to say "Frank Capra's." There it is right there. That's a gag that we could make into something.

  Peter Capaldi

  Writing, Wife, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

  Nelson Mandela

  Encouragement, Islands, Diaries

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• USA has gone from Barney Fife to Barney Frank.

  Mike Huckabee

  Usa, Gone

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• When you talk about the world's greatest entertainer you have to say Al Jolson because there was no one like him. Only Judy Garland and perhaps Frank Sinatra got anywhere near him!

  Jack Benny

  World, Als, Garlands

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

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• But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Real, Wife, Mind

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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