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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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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The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the country. But people are not going to say it. People are not going to step out and say, 'I have a problem with Romney because he's Mormon.' What they're going to say is he's a flip-flopper... It's a fact; it's reality.
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I would say it was about time that you believe in something. And sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll ain't it.... A lot of people used to think they were.
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The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all.
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I am a person who is not mated.
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You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.
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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.'
