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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Benjamin Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

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Work Man Happy Idle Miserable Who

I'm asked all the time if there could be a Bernie Sanders collaboration, and my answer to that has always been yes. The Green Party has long sought to establish a collaboration with Bernie Sanders.

Time Collaboration Green Long Party

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

Great Art Think Making Statements

Fame put a lot of pressure on me in the Eighties and early Nineties - and I'm glad that I had the kind of makeup where I could come through it alive, keep myself in hand.

Myself Me Makeup Pressure Early

I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories, one of which was published in 'The Paris Review' in 1989.

Age Writing Short Paris More Kid

I think I subconsciously put myself in these situations where the girlfriend isn't pleased with me. I'm useless as a boyfriend. That's how I managed to write all these songs.

Myself Me Think Write Useless Where

Science, innovation, safety and affordability. Who could oppose United States food policy based on these core principles? Unfortunately, this idea has become unnecessarily controversial in agriculture.

Innovation Science Food Safety Core

Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.

Miranda Cosgrove

Wish Meet Actor Act Sing Just

When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Live Soul Gangster Die You Donkey

I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.

I Am Person Quite Am Discovered

It's easy to play a character, but playing yourself is difficult.

Character Yourself Easy Play Playing

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Life Great People Thoughts Values

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Winston Churchill

Politics Tomorrow Week Year Why

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