Thomas Frank
Related DANIEL CRAIG GARY VAYNERCHUK A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. STEVE TRUGLIA JOHN LYDON 'Station to Station' is a series of happenings that go across the landscape. What is a happe... DOUG AITKEN LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know some... JOHN ELDREDGE CLINT EASTWOOD MATT SMITH Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond... IDRIS ELBA A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Br... STEVE TRUGLIA DANIEL CRAIG DOUG LIMAN AASIF MANDVI Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police ar... STANLEY CROUCH We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know wha... JACK FALAHEE In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take ... ANDREW BOGUT DAVID SEDARIS JACK WELCH JOHN ASHCROFT MONICA BELLUCCI I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture... SHERMAN ALEXIE ELVIS MITCHELL NATALIE MERCHANT GINNI ROMETTY A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They ju... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA HENRY MINTZBERG JOEL SALATIN ASTRO People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facil... GERHARD RICHTER I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool. PATRICK KANE ELISABETH SHUE Whatever you say to yourself about it being just another movie, and you're going to do the job y... THOMAS NEWMAN I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's ... TIFFANY TRUMP C. JOYBELL C. ANNE FRANK PIERCE BROSNAN ANNIE PARISSE ARTHUR MILLER IRVINE WELSH This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is... BETTY CARTER CHRISTOPHER LEE What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-bu... LANCE HENRIKSEN TOM WAITS BEN STILLER ELODIE YUNG There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, yo... LEOS CARAX JOHN NIVEN When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, an... FRED ARMISEN We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India. IRRFAN KHAN CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I w... DAVID DOBKIN STEVE CARELL MICHELLE OBAMA You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't g... LORRAINE BRACCO ANDREW LANSLEY LAWRENCE LESSIG What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really shou... LARS ULRICH It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, host... MICHAEL NESMITH I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says... EDDIE MARSAN EZRA MILLER If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism. FOSTER FRIESS I think to this day, 'Superman/Wonder Woman' is probably one of the trickiest things I'v... CHARLES SOULE HARLAN COBEN GEORGE SAUNDERS TOM HARDY 'Night Watch' itself is a very Russian movie. It's impossible to imagine this kind of mo... TIMUR BEKMAMBETOV BUSTA RHYMES KRISTEN STEWART DONNA BRAZILE The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, includi... NEIL POSTMAN I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavi... FOSTER FRIESS PALOMA FAITH NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job w... DAISY FUENTES Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's invo... AL-WALEED BIN TALAL ADAM GRANT But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whet... EDDIE HUANG BRYAN SINGER NAOMI JUDD SAM HARRIS GORDON BROWN A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture... ISMAIL MERCHANT ROBYN BELL HOOKS DAN BROWN Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't... JEFFREY WRIGHT People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Bal... GEOFFREY RUSH XAVIER RUDD What people don't understand is that my dad isn't up on the contemporary music scene. He'... 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THOMAS FRANK I think he's become a better pitcher. He really concentrates on spots more than just blowing you awa... FRANK THOMAS THOMAS FRANK THOMAS FRANK THOMAS FRANK This means everything to Chicago. If they want a World Series championship, they've got it. FRANK THOMAS I want to thank these guys for pulling my big butt across this finish line. FRANK THOMAS The passion on this team is like I've never seen before in my 15 years here, FRANK THOMAS That's Willie; he likes to talk. FRANK THOMAS All I can tell you is that I don't have much to tell you. FRANK THOMAS They failed to act for legal reasons, not for the best interests of golf. I warned them, but nobody ... FRANK THOMAS I don't know how the Angels just let him go. FRANK THOMAS I relished the '58 game because I was voted in by my peers. I think that age will always go down as ... FRANK THOMAS boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin? FRANK ANNE FRANK FRANK IERO FRANK SINATRA FRANK SINATRA FRANK ZAPPA Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think abou... ZE FRANK I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and ... ZE FRANK We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see w... ZE FRANK For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back. ZE FRANK If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody'... ZE FRANK I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your... ZE FRANK YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been adde... ZE FRANK I'm fascinated by simple joy. ZE FRANK We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't... ZE FRANK What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink... ZE FRANK I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants. ZE FRANK I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-... ZE FRANK In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's plat... ZE FRANK Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusiv... ZE FRANK Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you. ZE FRANK Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to... ZE FRANK The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelie... ZE FRANK When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that expla... 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Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all.... 
The world is a beautiful place
If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really ... 
I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though. 
I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. T... 
I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I ma... 
For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, rom... 
People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that t... 
If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out... 
The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been f... 
I'm a true woman, not a Bond girl. That's why I say all the time, 'James Bond lady,'... 
If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, ... 
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope. 
To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is peop... 
Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know ... 
You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we ... 
If it's a good movie, it's a good movie. I don't care about the genres. 
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Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... 
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It is a lie. 
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It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may... 
Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, tha... 
I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn't first lady my whole li... 
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So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when th... 
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It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunnin... 
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A white-boy attitude is 'I must exclude, denigrate, and leave behind.' They don't see it... 
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality. 
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I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate. 
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Whoever is happy will make others happy too. 
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. 
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. 
What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. 
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There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure. 
I live in a crazy time. 
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Don't follow trends, start trends. 
Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial. 
I was a thug. 
A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends. 
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I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen... 
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al... 
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph... 
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You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. 
I'm gonna live till I die. 
And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians. 
I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the fi... 
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in Americ... 
Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving. 
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