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've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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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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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
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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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Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
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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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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.
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Instead of putting cheese with ranchero sauce, chile is really very good for you. If you put that in, you get flavoring, so you're not eating bland food, especially if you're used to spicy food.
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A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
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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.
