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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Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
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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 like to use a bit of chaos when I shoot. I think it may be something from the way I shot my first film - I was very scared, of course, and I prepared everything, I wanted to make sure that the characters did the right thing at the right time on the storyboard. But then I realised that in life, there is so much more than what you can predict or write in advance, that when you shoot the story, it's good to leave some gaps where you lose control. I think this combination of chaos and organisation gives a kind of quality.
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I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive.
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Theology is the logic of the Devil.
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There's always something exciting about small change.
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You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength.
