Franklin Pierce Adams Quotes

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Franklin Pierce Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 15, 1881 - March 23, 1960

Topics

WomenMenPeopleVoteMen And Women

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

John Nelson Darby

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Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

Robert Plant

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I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

Matthew Desmond

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Not only do the Americans not defend our films, they buy them up just for remakes. It is shameful to kneel at their feet.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

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I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

Jeff Lemire

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Jean Paul

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I put a lot of pressure on myself.

Amber Mark

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We shouldn't be encouraging people to set up Cayman Island funds.

Steve Mnuchin

PeopleIslandUpSetEncouraging

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

Rory Bremner

TeacherFirstImpressionPublic

I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism back then towards Indian people. And it wasn't actual hatred, it was just that blind, 'Let's pick on that guy.' You know, and you've got to figure that I was a very small kid. And I had a big mouth, so I'm sure that didn't help.

Russell Peters

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Ring Kuot, a 15-year-old Sudanese boy, was rumored to be eight feet three. And until Leonid's emergence at eight feet four inches last spring, people generally assumed that Radhouane Charbib of Tunisia, at seven feet nine, was the tallest documented man in the world.

Michael Paterniti

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Actually, I'm not crazed about what I eat.

Julia Roberts

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