Benjamin Franklin Quotes

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

Benjamin Franklin

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• The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Teach
  • Evolution
  • Debate

• I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Life
  • Party
  • Building

• Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Wife

• Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Work
  • Path

• I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Comedy
  • Open
  • Familiar

• I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Like
  • Film
  • Happens

• I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Family
  • Health

• The thing running through me is the same thing that writes songs. It's the fighter about to get into the ring. It's like, I'm not here to entertain you; I'm here to get this out, whatever it is.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Me
  • Running
  • Same

• Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Idea
  • Behind

• Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Society

• Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh … well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Crazy
  • Makeup

• An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

  

  Edmund Burke

• One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Lies
  • Competition

• I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Taken

• And death was a soft thing, soft and black, cool and sweet and gracious. He slipped into it as a swimmer slips into the surf and it closed over him and held him and he felt the pulse and beat of it and knew the vastness and sureness of it.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Death
  • Black
  • Cool

• I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Up
  • World
  • Rest

• Essentially what's going to determine how you succeed in New York is how people feel about the space, how delicious the food is, how they perceive the value and, most important of all, how they feel treated. My understanding is Stephen Starr is exceptionally good at all of this and his ability to create a transporting experience.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Laughter

• There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

  

  Hazel Scott
  • Children
  • Thing

• What makes me laugh about politics, sometimes, is it seems like once we get to a point where our problems are seemingly unsolvable, it's because we're looking through a wrong point of view. If we turn the thing on its head, then maybe we might see it differently.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks

• Al Qaeda will always focus on us, the United States. And they will take advantage of any situation.

  

  Dutch Ruppersberger
  • Focus

• He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

  

  Benjamin Franklin