Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
V. S. Naipaul
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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.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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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.
Madchen Amick
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
Walter Huston
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
Tammy Baldwin
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Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde
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If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.
Imogen Poots
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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.
Kate Moss
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I think abortion is murder.
Victoria Jackson
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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.
Eddie Redmayne
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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.
Quentin Tarantino
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Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.
Elizabeth Diller
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Shes a valley girl In a clothing store Okay, fine... Fer sure, fer sure.
Frank Zappa
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Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied – they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.
Morrissey
The Smiths
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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
Umar
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This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics.
William John Macquorn Rankine
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Man is a tool-making animal.
Benjamin Franklin
