Benjamin Franklin Quotes
A lady asked Franklin: 'Well, Doctor, what have we got-a Republic or a Monarchy?'. Franklin replied: 'A Republic, if you can keep it.'

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I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
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In Australia, kids play in American accents.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.
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It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.
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Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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Globalization is a fact of economic life.
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I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television.
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Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.
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Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?
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My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
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We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking.
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My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about.
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It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
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I loved working on 'Dogfight,' but when I first read it and wrapped my head around the story, I was a little horrified.
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If there's a proven track record, the odds are higher that success can be repeated. This is what we investors always hope for.
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From Lee, a dramatist: Ah! the poet hath no true hope, who doth not place it in the many, and in the feeling of the common multitude.
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We've always had the sensibility that you work on the set, and you structure it, much like a play, where once you've got the lines down and blocking right, you freeze it, and then you go out and do what you're doing night after night. You want to structure something that has form and that builds the right dynamic from start to finish.
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We need never be ashamed of our tears.
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A lady asked Franklin: 'Well, Doctor, what have we got-a Republic or a Monarchy?'. Franklin replied: 'A Republic, if you can keep it.'