Frank Quotes - Page 27

• We cherish the chance to say thank you in person to Cpl. Frank Buckles.

  Frank Buckles

  Chance, Cherish, Saying Thank You

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• Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

  Russell Jacoby

  Common Sense, Half, World

  Russell Jacoby (1975). “Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing”, Beacon Pr

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• I can't stay mad at Pope Frank. I just can't. It's a funny situation that I like the pope and Mel Gibson doesn't.

  Bill Maher

  Mad, Pope, Situation

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• When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist. He said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and move things forward. And that fascinated me... I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life...

  Jeremy Gilley

  Moving, Book, Responsibility

  "On September 21, call a global truce" by Jeremy Gilley, www.cnn.com. January 15, 2012.

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• A second Homeland Security official has been arrested, a 49-year-old guy named Frank Figueroa, he was caught exposing and fondling himself to a teenage girl in a shopping mall in Florida. Do you realize? If Osama bin Laden was a 14-year old girl, we would have had him by now. ... Who is going to start protecting us from the Department of Homeland Security? ... It kind of makes you long for the good old wholesome days of the Clinton administration.

  Jay Leno

  Girl, Teenage, Florida

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• Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.

  Mordecai Richler

  Father, Dying, Ashes

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• We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Knowledge, Biographies

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He (Frank Robinson
  as Manager) can step on your shoes, but he doesn't mess up your shine.

  Joe Morgan

  Shoes, Shining, Steps

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• In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must seem pleased, when he is very much otherwise; he must be able to accost and receive with smiles, those whom he would much rather meet with swords.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Patience, Men, Tolerance

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.298, OUP Oxford

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• Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his back by illness. He was sure that his business would go to pieces during his long, enforced absence. Instead, he discovered that he had in his employ men who could overcome difficulties when given power to exercise initiative. After that Woolworth left many problems and difficulties to be solved by subordinates and turned his attention to big things.

  B. C. Forbes

  Exercise, Men, Careers

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• The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Love Life, Simple, Greatness

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• Frank Sinatra was very devoted to what it was he did. At the end of his life, what he had left - there have been accolades, mementos, festivals, superlatives, all that stuff. He's done movies, TV, done this, done that - what he had left was a love of his audience, and that kept him alive.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Done, Alive, Festivals

  Source: www.news-journalonline.com

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• There is a man up in Philadelphia, I've known him for 50 years now, his name is Sid Mark. He does a radio program featuring Frank Sinatra music exclusively - one show for decades, "Friday with Frank," "Saturday with Sinatra," "Sunday with Sinatra," for decades. This is something that is really quite important.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Friday, Sunday, Men

  Source: www.news-journalonline.com

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• The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Ideas, World, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.

  Quincy Jones

  Writing, Dna, Stuff

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Inteview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' are the ultimate one-two punch.

  Dhani Jones

  Song, Two, People

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• I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mean, People, Wicked

  "A Long Fatal Love Chase". Book by Louisa May Alcott, 1995.

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• I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Doubt, Pope

  Interview with Bill Maher, 2013.

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• Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

  Caitlin Moran

  Asking Why, Television, Want

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• I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have to score the third one first.

  Angus Loughran

  Football, Want, Dutch

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• I had an opportunity to be in Frank's [Sinatra] circle, but I couldn't take advantage of it because I couldn't get over how awed I was by him. It was so uncomfortable for me because he meant so much to me, but I just couldn't be myself, so I fled rather than having those great nights hanging out.

  Ron Perlman

  Opportunity, Night, Circles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or his statue of David. Think of a great and enduring novel like Huckleberry Finn or Crime and Punishment. Think of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare's Henry V. Think of a beautifully designed building, like the masterpieces of Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. You can't point to any one single item that makes the whole thing work; it's the entire work-all the pieces working together to create an overall effect-that leads to enduring greatness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Art, Greatness, Thinking

  John C. Maxwell (2003). “Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.

  Jack Gould

  Singing, Ears, Hysterical

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• I want to become a person that is frank and pure with a healthy energy, a person with an unpredictable charm who acts accordingly regardless of what clothes I'm put in.

  Kwon Yuri

  Clothes, Healthy, Energy

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• The Sun had a good relationship with Frank Bruno. We did lots of interviews. He was a great character, very friendly to the media.

  Rebecca

  Character, Media, Good Relationship

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