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.
Karl Liebknecht -
Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
Larry Hagman -
People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant -
Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
W. Daniel Hillis -
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
Barbara Bush -
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.
Laura Dern
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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.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
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?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
Taylor Lautner -
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
Gary Oldman -
Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
Ted Nugent -
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
Samuel Alexander
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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.
Rachel Bloom -
Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
Dada Vaswani -
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
Irwin Shaw -
I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
Taylor Hackford -
I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.
Tatiana Maslany -
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky
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It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.
Vicki Lawrence -
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.
Johann Arndt -
Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.
Katharine Hepburn -
It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.
Madeleine de Souvre -
An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
John Henry Patterson -
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means.
Benjamin Franklin