Frank Thomas quote: "I'm just happy to be sitting right here in Chicago and right here at U.S. Cellular Field, holding my Hall of Fame press conference. I'm proud of that."

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we ...
THOMAS FRANK

Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wis...
THOMAS FRANK

The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the g...
THOMAS FRANK

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figu...
THOMAS FRANK

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to ...
THOMAS FRANK

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will no...
THOMAS FRANK

Observe Everything.
Communicate Well.
Draw, Draw, Draw.
FRANK THOMAS

I think there is a lot of good in making the All-Star Team. People look at your career a little bit ...
FRANK THOMAS

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.
THOMAS FRANK

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might sa...
THOMAS FRANK

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's rig...
THOMAS FRANK

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns th...
THOMAS FRANK

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world wh...
THOMAS FRANK

As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the l...
THOMAS FRANK

In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, ...
THOMAS FRANK

Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the de...
THOMAS FRANK

When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from t...
THOMAS FRANK

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years...
THOMAS FRANK

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically,...
THOMAS FRANK

Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of de...
THOMAS FRANK

When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for grove...
THOMAS FRANK

Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in ...
THOMAS FRANK

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people th...
THOMAS FRANK

He said, 'Just put the bat on the ball and let it happen. Robin got to the point where he walked up ...
FRANK THOMAS

Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significan...
THOMAS FRANK

I'm not prone (to injuries) at all. I had an unfortunate injury and I was surgically repaired. I cho...
FRANK THOMAS

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from t...
THOMAS FRANK

The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by any...
THOMAS FRANK

It's curious how this parallels what goes on in academia. In academic fields like cultural studies, ...
THOMAS FRANK

People understand how, with the concentration of ownership, the things that make up their lives are ...
THOMAS FRANK

As we all know, Nike is a terrible exploiter of labor in other countries while advertising themselve...
THOMAS FRANK

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where ...
THOMAS FRANK

An appeal to reason in a dark time.
THOMAS FRANK

The public is becoming more engaged with this project as each new phase starts. We hope to address t...
THOMAS FRANK

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speec...
THOMAS FRANK

Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives...
THOMAS FRANK

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks la...
THOMAS FRANK

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of t...
THOMAS FRANK

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's versi...
THOMAS FRANK

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly ...
THOMAS FRANK

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to ...
THOMAS FRANK

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.
THOMAS FRANK

Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the ...
THOMAS FRANK

I was a little rusty. Wash had a little quicker tempo than I'm used to having. But we're ahead of th...
FRANK THOMAS

We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful st...
THOMAS FRANK

Fifteen years now. I think of all the great teams we've had, and if we'd had this pitching, you neve...
FRANK THOMAS

Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago's parking meters will be operated for the next 75 ye...
THOMAS FRANK

Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still conside...
THOMAS FRANK

We talked. But they didn't think I could hold up on the field turf, that's really what it came down ...
FRANK THOMAS

They don't have sense enough to move that before it starts rotting.
FRANK THOMAS

And libertarianism is good because it helps conservatives pass off a patently pro-business political...
THOMAS FRANK

He's still got a blazing fastball,
FRANK THOMAS

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the ...
THOMAS FRANK

Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't ha...
THOMAS FRANK

Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among nu...
THOMAS FRANK

Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sover...
THOMAS FRANK

The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new...
THOMAS FRANK

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling t...
THOMAS FRANK

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirro...
THOMAS FRANK

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planne...
THOMAS FRANK

Some meetings' minutes are missing. There are a number of gaps.
THOMAS FRANK

Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet a...
THOMAS FRANK

I have a habit of reading a book for at least 15 minutes a day, and whenever I finish a chapter, I i...
THOMAS FRANK

I think he's become a better pitcher. He really concentrates on spots more than just blowing you awa...
FRANK THOMAS

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle...
THOMAS FRANK

Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are s...
THOMAS FRANK

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedent...
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

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to...
FRANK IERO

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I...
FRANK SINATRA

The best revenge is massive success.
FRANK SINATRA

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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...
ZE FRANK

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss ...
ZE FRANK

I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ...
ZE FRANK

The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
ZE FRANK

I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type...
ZE FRANK

Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
ZE FRANK

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten...
ZE FRANK

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
FRANK CRANE

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but yo...
FRANK OCEAN

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
FRANK GEHRY

There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.
FRANK BRUNO

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
ANNE FRANK

I live in a crazy time.
ANNE FRANK

For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identi...
GARY FRANK

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxe...
FRANK SHORTER

Don't follow trends, start trends.
FRANK CAPRA

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
FRANK DANE

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
FRANK ZAPPA

I was a thug.
FRANK OCEAN

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
FRANK CRANE

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with t...
FRANK OCEAN

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al...
ROBERT FRANK

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
FRANK LANE

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
FRANK SINATRA

I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too ...
OTTO FRANK

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but ...
OTTO FRANK

I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too ...
FRANK KEATING

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
FRANK BUTLER

We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the c...
GARY FRANK

Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and th...
GARY FRANK

When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his ...
GARY FRANK

The fact is that Superman isn't around because he is the oldest superhero. He's still around...
GARY FRANK

We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin...
GARY FRANK

I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of ...
GARY FRANK

I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. ...
GARY FRANK

We don't have sales trading, brokerage, capital lending - any of those kinds of things that got ...
FRANK QUATTRONE

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to...
FRANK STELLA

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until i...
FRANK YERBY

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over h...
FRANK MILLER

Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Ba...
FRANK DEFORD

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing...
FRANK RICH

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the la...
FRANK TEBBETS

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
FRANK SINATRA

I'm gonna live till I die.
FRANK SINATRA

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
BARNEY FRANK

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the fi...
BARNEY FRANK

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation an...
BARNEY FRANK

The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
BARNEY FRANK

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in Americ...
BARNEY FRANK

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people ma...
BARNEY FRANK

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

I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, b...
BARNEY FRANK

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily ...
BARNEY FRANK

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share...
BARNEY FRANK

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help peop...
BARNEY FRANK

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
BARNEY FRANK

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perf...
BARNEY FRANK

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.
BARNEY FRANK

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produ...
BARNEY FRANK

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the R...
BARNEY FRANK

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and th...
BARNEY FRANK

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they w...
BARNEY FRANK

Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.
FRANK ROONEY

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than tha...
ANNE FRANK

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and ...
ANNE FRANK

the conversion of Anne Frank into usable goods.
ANNE FRANK

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
FRANK DANE

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
FRANK GEHRY

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the sam...
FRANK MILLER

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to ...
FRANK MCCOURT

I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it an...
FRANK ABAGNALE

Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and ...
FRANK DEFORD

You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yoursel...
FRANK ABAGNALE

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city o...
FRANK BLACK

I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business Sc...
FRANK QUATTRONE

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake ...
FRANK RICH

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.
FRANK SINATRA

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.
FRANK SINATRA

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chanc...
FRANK SINATRA

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
FRANK SINATRA

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I ...
FRANK SINATRA

There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, ...
FRANK SINATRA

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.
FRANK SINATRA

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.
FRANK SINATRA

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm hone...
FRANK SINATRA

Don't get even, get mad.
FRANK SINATRA

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
FRANK SINATRA

I'm gonna live till I die.
FRANK SINATRA

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
FRANK SINATRA

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate...
FRANK OCEAN

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.
FRANK OCEAN

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
FRANK OCEAN

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me...
FRANK OCEAN

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.
FRANK OCEAN

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.
FRANK OCEAN

I'm just happy to be sitting right here in Chicago and right here at U.S. Cellular Field, holding my Hall of Fame press conference. I'm proud of that.

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I'm just happy to be sitting right here in Chicago and right here at U.S. Cellular Field, holding my Hall of Fame press conference. I'm proud of that.

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