Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
Yani Tseng -
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
Daniel Barenboim -
I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition.
Hamza Yusuf -
Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
Gary Wolf -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
Pat Summitt -
Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
J. August Richards -
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Haile Selassie -
Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
Salman Rushdie -
I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
Natalia Kills
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The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
Baltasar Garzon -
When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'
Eddie Kaye Thomas -
Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
Pat Paulsen -
When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
Orlando Bloom -
Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
Eddie Redmayne -
My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.
Clint Smith -
My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can't live there if Trump's president.
Butch Trucks -
'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
David Benioff -
The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name.
John Lawson -
Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
Barack Obama -
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin