Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Quotes to Explore
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.
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I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.
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I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.
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But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
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Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
