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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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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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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I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.
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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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My anxiety has gotten worse as I've graduated and gotten older, and I still feel like 'Rookie' is a place where I can talk about that, and hopefully someone relates to it.
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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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Marriage is not different from a relationship.
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I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.
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There was a time when Istanbul was one of the safest cities in the world, because people were afraid of the police. People are no longer as afraid of the police as they used to be. Mugging used to be almost unknown; now everybody is afraid of mugging. In that sense, the downside of liberalization is already being felt in Turkey. And of course some people are afraid of Kurdish ethno-terrorism, which worries Turks very much more than the religious sort.
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There are so many different styles of yoga.
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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.'
