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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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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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
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My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.
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The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than the razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.
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To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
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I've been truly overwhelmed by the good luck messages I have received from the rugby world and the fantastic support I've had from my friends, family, my team-mates and staff at Cardiff Blues and the WRU throughout my treatment. It has meant a huge amount to me.
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Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.
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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means.
