Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I'd play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.
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I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.
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When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'
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You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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I wish I was more of a song-and-dance girl. I sang in a show once. I wish I could be in 'Hair.'
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Our next-door neighbour taught physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematicians. Supersonics experts held leadership positions in my mother's sorority, and electrical engineers sat on the board of my parents' college alumni associations.
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A penny saved is a penny got.
