Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.Benjamin Franklin
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
Saffron Burrows -
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Zig Ziglar -
When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
Abbe Pierre -
Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
Walter Russell Mead -
The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
C. C. H. Pounder -
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
Aaron Paul
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
Salman Rushdie -
I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.
Kate Mara -
We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
Abdoulaye Wade -
As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
Iman -
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
Van Wyck Brooks -
I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
W. C. Fields
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Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.
Barry Zito -
If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.
Victor Koo -
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
Victor Hugo -
Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
Orson Scott Card -
I was nine full months In the womb of Ceridwen. Before that I was Gwion, But now I am Taliesin.
Taliesin -
But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
John Adams
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At this point, I don’t need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That’s not fundamentally important - I don’t believe that sustains you.
Bruce Springsteen -
When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.
Ann Nocenti -
I enjoy walking through Nolita and Chinatown, watching the people and the buildings, browsing through shops and stopping at little cafes for a cup of coffee or glass of wine.
Aslaug Magnusdottir -
A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from.
Amal Clooney -
Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
Benjamin Franklin