Frank Black Quotes

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.

Frank Black

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You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.

Joe Lando

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During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Jerry Stiller

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I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.

Jennifer Egan

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The blockchain is to money what SMTP is to email. It's an open way to move value around. Every existing player in this space - not just Venmo but also Google and Facebook and others - are all closed; they all want to work just within their own walled garden.

Jeremy Allaire

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At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother's gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a laboratory came to an abrupt end when a minor explosion involving hydrogen sulphide spattered the newly painted decor and changed the colour from blue to dirty green!

John Vane

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I'm sick of environmentalism.

Tracey Ullman

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I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

Tom Skerritt

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In Europe and America, you never see a director pick up a camera. They all sit behind monitors.

Michelle Yeoh

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I had very much wanted to be the very first black female editor-in-chief of 'Vogue.' Barring that, I wanted to work at 'Entertainment Weekly.'

Courtney A. Kemp

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I like questions that tee me up to make weird jokes, frankly.

Colson Whitehead

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The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

Alison Gopnik

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Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.

Shia LaBeouf

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