Thomas Frank Quotes

Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.

Thomas Frank

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 21, 1965

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I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.

Jim Parsons

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My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

Joel McHale

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Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

John Lasseter

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There are genres I don't care for, and I've never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I haven't liked and I haven't worked for those people. But if I feel like there's a movie that I would like to go see, I'll jump into it.

John Sayles

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

John Steinbeck

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First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.

John Podesta

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I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style.

Shu Qi

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What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing.

Rod Lurie

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Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

Mason Cooley

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We have to do what I would call anomalies: we have to look for strange things that show up once in a while. They don't show up all the time. We have to be scanning the horizon, and doing that, once in a while something will show up that makes a lot of sense, and then you act on it.

Mohnish Pabrai

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Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.

Janine Benyus

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I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

Jose Canseco

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