Benjamin Franklin Quotes
It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.
Quotes to Explore
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then.
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When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
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I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.
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It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.
