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 wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.
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People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.
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Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.
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The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.
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Man is a tool-making animal.
