Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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It's better to do a film that works.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.
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A lot of people don't love their bank.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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I think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.
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I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
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I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
