Frank Quotes

• In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, Lying, Expression

  "Gilbert v. Minnesota, 254 U.S. 325, 338". Dissenting opinion, 1920.

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• One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Honesty, World, Helpful

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• When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

  Anatole Broyard

  Friendship, Advice, Being Sad

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  Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

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• Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

  Frank Zappa

  Hair, Long, Doe

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• Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Mind, Wish

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3039, Delphi Classics

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• If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

  Moliere

  Integrity, Heart, Would Be

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• I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Mistake, Book, Pages

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• My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

  Angie Dickinson

  Funny, Mother, Witty

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

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• 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.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Father, Son, Men

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

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• I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

  Earl Weaver

  Thinking, Years, Speech

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• Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

  David Byrne

  Beautiful

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• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Independent, Dignity Of Work, Wealth

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.343, Diversion Books

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• One must be frank to be relevant.

  Corazon Aquino

  What Matters, Relevant

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• This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Women, Humor

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• New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.

  Queen Latifah

  World, Jersey, Talent

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• It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Friendship, Believe, Real Friends

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.78, BookBaby

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• To almost no one's surprise, Astrid said, "Dune, by Frank Herbert. 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that bring total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the Fear has gone there will be nothing.'" She and Lana together spoke the last phrase of the incantation. "'Only I will remain.

  Michael Grant

  Fear, Eye, Past

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• That's because we keep weapons int the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time monsters have attacked our family?" "Weapons," Frank grumbled. "Right. I've never handled weapons before." Grandmother's nostrils flared. "Was that sarcasm, Fai Zhang?" "Yes, Grandmother." "Good. There may be hope for you yet.

  Rick Riordan

  Silly, Grandmother, Sarcasm

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• The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.

  John Green

  Book, Museums, Names

  "An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall". "Vlogbrothers" with John and Hank Green, nerdfighteria.info. January 15, 2013.

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• I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

  Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma

  Mistake, Past, Movement

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• Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

  Cecil Beaton

  Intelligent, Conceit, Enthusiastic

  Cecil Beaton (1957). “The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places”

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• I think the thing that I got most from working with Frank Zappa is that I was able to see someone who completely independent. The most beautiful thing about Frank was that he was completely in the moment and present and eternally creative.

  Steve Vai

  Beautiful, Independent, Thinking

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Parent, Stones, Excited

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• I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

  Brett Eldredge

  Grandpa, Car, Listening

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