Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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You don't have to fit into a mold that someone else has defined.
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Every book that doesn't first have to get past a gatekeeper or two, or 10, before being put in front of the public will be worse.
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I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.
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I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.
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Civil rights icons, famous journalists, big-time movie producers may all have credits to their name that we can recognize and be grateful for, but their record of good works cannot excuse their harassment of women.
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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means.
