Jonathan Franklin Quotes
I have lived in Chile since 1996 and reported from Chile since 1989, so I know the nation better than my native Massachusetts.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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I hate celebrities.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.
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The only thing that can ever make a Louisiana boy feel better is Popeye's.
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I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
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My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.
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Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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If you can get ahead, it's definitely a psychological advantage.
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People naturally despise a dependant.
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I have lived in Chile since 1996 and reported from Chile since 1989, so I know the nation better than my native Massachusetts.
