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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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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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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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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Every day, I'm trying to push the boundaries creatively, and sometimes it does push the boundary too far, and that's what I had to learn.
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Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?
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I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.
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The band? It's over. Reunited because of the good cause (Live 8), to get over the bad relationship, and not to have regrets.
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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means.
