Franklin Pierce Quotes
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
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I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.
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I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
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We should make it so that young people pay their fair share for health care, and nothing more. And instead of Washington telling us what to buy, let's get back to letting every American choose the plan that's best for them and their family.
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Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.
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I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.
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A large-scale crisis - whether a terrorist attack or a financial crash - would likely provide the pretext to declare some sort of state of exception or emergency, where the usual rules no longer apply.
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Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?
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The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
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I couldn’t avoid being a poet. I was really having a pretty rough time of things, and I had a lot of energy, and poems were practically the only recourse I had to alleviate that energy and that anxiety. I take no credit for all the poems I’ve written. They were a way of releasing anxiety.
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Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?
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It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.
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The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.
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You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength.
