Frank Quotes - Page 9

• There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a very frank meeting we had with the president.

  Bobby Jindal

  Effort, President, Topics

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• When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies' by Alan G. Frank; it became my bible. It's packed full of the most amazing photos and is still fantastic to look at.

  Mark Gatiss

  Book, Eight, Looks

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• I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions.

  Otto Frank

  Thinking, Race, People

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

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• I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dog, Teacher, Cat

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.104, Penguin

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• Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like escaping from the world of the Presidency, I think of him.

  Vaclav Havel

  Thinking, Escaping, World

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• Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That's not an education. I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing.
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  Bel Kaufman

  Real, Cheater, Next Day

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.381, Open Road Media

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• Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

  Chet Baker

  Drummer, All Time, Knows

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• You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

  Robert E. Lee

  Children, Honesty, Mean

  John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.42, Madison & Adams

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• We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

  Richard Meier

  Past, Long, Architecture

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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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• Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer's reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Reflection, Mirrors

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• I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

  Tom Shadyac

  Fighting, Men, People

  "Tom Shadyac Interview - EVAN ALMIGHTY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 19, 2007.

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• You gotta school these young macks comin' up today...
  I mean to be 'frank', they just hot dogs,
  The girls are relish, and they need to catchup on they pimpin'.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Girl, Dog, Rap

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• The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire of the people of both countries to practice what they preach when they speak of the good neighbor. In the solution of the grave problems that face the world today, frank dealing, cooperation and a spirit of give and take between nations is more important than ever before.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Autumn, Agreement

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• 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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• While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Patience, Memories, Humor

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• Dodd-Frank was passed. ... This is the biggest kiss that's been given to New York banks I've ever seen. This is an enormous boon for them. There've been 122 community and small banks have closed since Dodd- Frank. ... I would repeal and replace it.

  Mitt Romney

  New York, Kissing, Community

  "Presidential Debate: Top Quotes of the Night" by Amy Bingham, abcnews.go.com. October 3, 2012.

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• The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! Wait, wait... Oh, my mistake - that's the intercom light.

  Gary Larson

  Mistake, Light, Waiting

  Gary Larson, Steve (FRW) Martin (2003). “The Complete Far Side: 1980-1994”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• Frank Lowy is an institution in Australian sport but judging by this decision he might be visiting a different kind of institution. He has brought the game into disrepute. The sport should not be run by dictators like him.

  Clive Palmer

  Sports, Running, Crazy

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• We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.

  Maxine Waters

  Outstanding, Macs, Crisis

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• Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the risk of default. ... The idea that politicians can assess risks better than people who have spent their whole careers assessing risks should have been so obviously absurd that no one would take it seriously.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Should Have, Careers

  "Bailout Politics" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 30, 2008.

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• A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either.

  Mark Driscoll

  Song, Husband, Wife

  "Mark Driscoll Answers the 'Can We Do That?' Questions in Upcoming Book" by Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. September 15, 2011.

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• What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.'

  David Cross

  Baby, Sorry, Thinking

  The Best Fatherhood "Advice (from Comedians)" by Chris Giblin, www.esquire.com. August 28, 2013.

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• Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Music, Thinking, Idols

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