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Barney Frank Quotes

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 31, 1940

Topics

Thoughtful Television Enemy Essential

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

Heart People You Done Ask Always

I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.

Sports History People Generation

Being a Mum is a big job.

Job Big Being Mum

One day, when the world market is more or less fully developed and can no longer be suddenly enlarged, and if labour productivity continues to advance, then sooner or later the periodic clashes between productive forces and market barriers will begin, and because of their recurrence, these will naturally become increasingly rough and stormy.

Day World Will One Day Become More

To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.

Vision Politics Succeed World Better

Obscurity is the realm of error.

Luc de Clapiers

Error Realm Obscurity

I grew up on Wu-Tang and Tribe and Nas, all the raw, very New York-driven music. Then when I got older - in my late teens, early twenties - and that's when I started to listen to Drake and J. Cole, and so it wasn't just East-coast.

Music Early Late New Listen Tribe

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

Face House Find Inside Outside Us

We speak about understanding each other, having those conversations nationwide - culturally, historically - and yet there's a lot of gaps. So I want to assist with closing the gap of knowing about and hearing about our Latino communities in terms of literature, in terms of writing.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Writing Speak Understanding Want

You know, we had that groove; I didn't feel no way.

Feel You Know Way Groove Had

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

I Am Start You Vanity Inevitable

That's really truly what my message is - finding self love within yourself and not comparing yourself to others - because there's no such thing as perfection, because perfection doesn't exist.

Love Perfection Yourself Self Others

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