My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly. ~By Liz Phair ~
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. ~By Dan Quayle ~
I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong. ~By Steven Soderbergh ~
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance. ~By Hu Shih ~
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. ~By Dweezil Zappa ~
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. ~By Jim Harrison ~
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. ~By Barack Obama ~
If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time. ~By Meg Tilly ~
Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it. ~By Stockwell Day ~
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. ~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success. ~By Wilbur Wright ~
The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa. ~By Nina Blackwood ~
The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around. ~By Gaylord Nelson ~
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. ~By Jacques Barzun ~
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. ~By Jean Rostand ~
I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing. ~By Marty Robbins ~
It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president. ~By John Boehner ~
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. ~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. ~By John Moody ~
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation. ~By Alcee Hastings ~
I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed. ~By Linda Lingle ~
When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well. ~By Bill Ford ~
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. ~By W. H. Auden ~
The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral. ~By Jon Kyl ~
Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed. ~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano. ~By George Duke ~
One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing. ~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
Especially when I first really started to work with Kenneth and Franklin, who had been in space already. And so, they were able to talk about space and tell me a few things about how things would really happen. ~By Philippe Perrin ~
I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood. ~By Holly Johnson ~
In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known. ~By Kenneth Noland ~
Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them. ~By Aaron Spelling ~
Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water. ~By Bashar al-Assad ~
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. ~By Ambrose Bierce ~
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed. ~By James Allen ~
And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened. ~By Patty Hearst ~
I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God. ~By Alan Keyes ~
I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle. ~By Mitch Hedberg ~
The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax. ~By William Floyd ~
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. ~By Leslie Stephen ~
Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so. ~By Pete du Pont ~
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. ~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed. ~By Robert Welch ~
I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States. ~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university. ~By John Keegan ~
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. ~By Larry Summers ~
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. ~By Victoria Secunda ~
How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked. ~By Burl Ives ~
I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life. ~By Robert Carlyle ~
Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up. ~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed. ~By William Scranton ~
People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits. ~By Rick Wakeman ~
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. ~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. ~By John James Ingalls ~
What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax. ~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses. ~By Dweezil Zappa ~
Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings. ~By Bob Holden ~
And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly. ~By Ridley Scott ~
Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio. ~By David R. Gergen ~
Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. ~By Ted Kulongoski ~
First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time. ~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. ~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating. ~By John Yoo ~
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new. ~By Catherine Bell ~
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. ~By Sydney Smith ~
We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness. ~By Katherine Harris ~
In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man. ~By Robert Dale Owen ~
And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life. ~By Anthony Quinn ~
Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks. ~By Richard V. Allen ~
We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it. ~By Gary Allan ~
If their were more Franklin operations it could help the cause much more than right wing activity. ~By Tom Metzger ~
I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it. ~By Dolly Parton ~
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. ~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. ~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes. ~By Jane Harman ~
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. ~By Winston Churchill ~
I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me. ~By Jensen Ackles ~
I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank. ~By Douglas Wilson ~
I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for. ~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra. ~By Ken Curtis ~
That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem. ~By Les Aspin ~
I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra. ~By Pia Zadora ~
I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad. ~By Sam Elliott ~
Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now. ~By Ed Gillespie ~
Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies). ~By Janet Napolitano ~
I can't frankly see much difference in the film industry at all. The only difference might be that they don't take as much time as they used to. For example, they'll do in one day what we used to take a week to do. ~By Glenn Ford ~
The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders. ~By John Lawson ~
Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence. ~By Bernadette Devlin ~
Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together. ~By Jimmy Wales ~
The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. ~By Steve Buyer ~
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ~By Joseph Addison ~
My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra. ~By Angie Dickinson ~
Frank liked administrative work and was good at it. ~By Denis Norden ~
Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them. ~By Anthony Rapp ~
What I want the Congress of the United States to do, and frankly what I would like to see the President of the United States of America do, is speak a word of support to the people of Iran. ~By Mike Pence ~
This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September. ~By Jesse James ~
The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder. ~By Lawrence Hargrave ~
In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country. And we've had complaints about this ever since. ~By Mark Lloyd ~
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. ~By David Russell ~
I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention. ~By Luke Perry ~
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