Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.
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Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
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I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?
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America is the paradise of lawyers.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
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You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
