Jonathan Franklin Quotes
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
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I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
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I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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'Technologies are control systems,' she said. 'They dictate your reality.'
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
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I was the youngest of six kids, and my brothers and sisters were kind of a lot older than me. And the one sister that was, like, in a close age range - she was five years older than me. She was my closest sister in age, and she was a loser.
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Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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I can have an androgynous quality.
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You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!
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It is a gift to be a teenager, and I see a dad's job as lifeguard, not chaperone.
