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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We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.
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There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
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It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.
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Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.
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My fantasy breakfast is just a really good egg scramble. Maybe I'll add a little feta, so, uh, obviously not totally dairy-free. Definitely some vegetables, maybe some really nice tortillas; something to make it like a Mexican-style breakfast. I just really love breakfast.
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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means.
