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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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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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 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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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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There is no fashion so absurd, even grotesque, that it cannot be adopted, given two things: the authority of the fashion-setter (Dior, Jackie Onassis) and the vacuity or noughtness of the consumer.
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Another matter before the Congress is legislation affecting the labor sections of the transportation act. Much criticism has been directed at the workings of this section and experience has shown that some useful amendment could be made to these provisions.
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Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.
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Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.
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Even at the cost of what is called honor and honesty? That is comfortable philosophy, and having preached and practiced it all my days I've no right to condemn it. But the saints would call it sinful and dangerous and tell you that life should be one long penance full of sorrow, sacrifice and psalm-singing.
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As one who fought in all of Israel's wars, and learned from personal experience that without proper force, we do not have a chance of surviving in this region, which does not show mercy towards the weak, I have also learned from experience that the sword alone cannot decide this bitter dispute in this land.
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I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.
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Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.
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I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.
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You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength.
