Franklin Pierce Adams Quotes
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.
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Good acting is consistency of performance.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.
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I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
