Frank Quotes - Page 19

• We have good personal relationship with President Obama, our relations are quite frank and business-like. And this is quite enough to do our job.

  Vladimir Putin

  Jobs, President, Good Person

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

  Garry Winogrand

  Way, Function, Knows

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump basically share a policy of brute military strength. And both, I think, make a lot of Americans uneasy about our foreign policy going forward, which needs a frank discussion. Likewise on the issue of student debt and the future of our younger generation.

  Jill Stein

  Military, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.

  Alicia Keys

  Ocean, Space, Appreciate

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• But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.

  Tony Kushner

  Mother, Country, Thinking

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• I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Way, Photographer, Glamour

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• The Democrats cannot find Romney fingerprints on what's happening to this country. Every fingerprint is Barack Obama's, Joe Biden's, Nancy Pelosi's, Harry Reid's, Barney Frank's, you name it, Eric Holder.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Names, Eric

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• If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

  Tony Blair

  Decision, Trying, Pros And Cons

  Interview with Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2010.

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• If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Growing Up, Secret

  "Maurice Sendak's dark visions delighted generations of children" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.

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• There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

  Jane Smiley

  Country, New York, Museums

  "Lively, daring genius" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2007.

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• Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.

  Gail Zappa

  Brain, Criminals, Details

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, People, Albums

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - two bloated and corrupt government-sponsored programs - contributed heavily to the crisis.In order to prevent another crisis, we need to do what we should have done years ago - reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We also need to repeal Dodd-Frank, the Democrats' failed solution. Under Dodd-Frank, 10 banks too big to fail have become five banks too big to fail. Thousands of community banks have gone out of business.

  Carly Fiorina

  Two, Government, Order

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Pop was initially ignored as a moneymaker by the recording industry. In the seventies they were still relying on Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett for their big hits. You know, most of the budget for the record companies in those days went to the classical department - and those were big budget albums.

  Tony Visconti

  Albums, Records, Ignored

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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• Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn't about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It's about making people believe in the story you're telling.

  Marc Almond

  Believe, People, Singing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There's a marvelous and unique man named Frank Gilroy. He's the only writer I know who absolutely, pointedly refuses to do any changes that he doesn't feel are absolutely essential and totally in keeping with his own view and perspective. But not too many writers are that independent and that strong-willed.

  Rod Serling

  Strong, Independent, Unique

  Source: www.rodserling.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.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Hocus Pocus, Heard

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

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• Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the 2008 Canadian CEO of the year, Frank DAngelo.

  Terence Corcoran

  Years, Giving, Gentleman

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• 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Movie, Dirty

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• People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, People, Knows

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• Phil Ramone and Quincy Jones were very close. Phil Ramone was one of the greatest record producers of all time. I don't know if they talk about him enough in the film, but he produced [Frank] Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, all of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney - Phil Ramone was one of the major record engineers and producers.

  Robert Davi

  Records, Film, Enough

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, 'Davi’s Way' And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

  Gail Zappa

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Information

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm Sinatra, I'm Frank Sinatra in disguise.

  U-God

  Disguise

  Source: mvremix.com

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• There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

  Wole Soyinka

  Artist, Wish, Different

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• I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.

  Steven Spielberg

  Divorce, Scams, Committed

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 17, 2002.

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