Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.
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I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.
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I think abortion is murder.
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There is a certain amount of commerce in the film industry in as much as you have value, and for a moment, your value goes up, then it all disappears again.
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I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.
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I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
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Sometimes people feel mind is merely the - in some animal, the energy or something from the brain. Now there are little sort of curiosities or I think doubt sometimes a sheer sort of mental attitude, some change in our brain. So these fields, now scientists are showing some interest.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still worse, to any applicant from Arkansas.
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Man is a tool-making animal.
