Charles Frazier Quotes

I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.

Charles Frazier

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Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.

Jimmy Breslin

BaseballPeopleNameYouKnowYoung

To fly we have to have resistance.

Maya Lin

FlyResistance

Money isn't automatically freedom. You need to look carefully at what you're doing to earn the money before you can conclude that you are, in practice, free. This is a cost-benefit analysis we should all perform on our own lives.

John Lanchester

FreedomMoneyPracticeFreeDoing

The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.

Angus Young

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The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.

Mia Kirshner

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View health as an investment, not an expense.

John Quelch

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I don't have an album cover with me on a broomstick.

Tom Felton

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When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.

Louis de Bernieres

LifeLoveChildrenFocusYouBecome

The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.

Lloyd Kaufman

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I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.

Deepika Padukone

DepressionMeBattleImportantOwn

I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.'

Clarke Peters

WorkStrengthMeTheatreWorldEnd

If the only time you bang the drum is when it's time to get someone elected, and you don't get involved in a mass movement, then you're working against real and substantive change.

Boots Riley

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