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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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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I'm a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direction for hours and hours and never admitting that he's gone the wrong way.
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On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.
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When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.
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I know it's hard for people to imagine a time when 'Hamilton' wasn't 'Hamilton,' but for years, it was just this little thing that I was telling people about that didn't make any sense to anybody as I was describing it. But I loved it.
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I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!
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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.'
