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Franklin P. Jones Quotes

The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one.

Franklin P. Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1908 - 1980

Topics

Problem Easy Way Pick Solve Easiest

'Futurama' was a big deal. People had already started to hear about me a little bit here and there, but that was the first series I booked to be a regular on.

People Me First Little Big Started

I'm not naive enough to believe it's in our nature to step outside our comfort zones.

Nature Step Believe Enough Comfort

Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because changes in the force of the illusion are difficult to predict.

Robert J. Shiller

Seeing Illusion Predict Difficult

The best cartoons have no words at all - just the image pops out.

Best Words Image Out Just Cartoons

I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

Jeanette MacDonald

Good Training Voice Think Smoking

At 19, I joined the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

War Air Force Vietnam War Air Force

I think that President Obama has done the best he possibly could during the first term considering that his opposition was willing to do whatever necessary to destroy him, even if it meant damaging the country in the process.

Best Think Process Country Done Him

It's not up to one individual to decide, 'I'm going to dictate the outcome of what's going to happen legislatively.' That is not a democracy; it's an atrocity.

Democracy Decide Up Individual Going

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Power Time Action Chance Forward

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

Think End Help You Kind Deaf

You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Building You New Wonderful Cannot

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

Joyce Carol Oates

Time Past Parents Think Grandmother

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