Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.
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I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.
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There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for the suffering of others, who are motivated to go to West Africa despite the risks of infection and death. And doctors and nurses face those risks every day regardless of their setting.
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I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
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Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.
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A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.
