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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Leisure Gain Well Thou Thy

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

Me Start Think Say Critics Always

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

Michael Ignatieff

World Someone Want Inside Own Who

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

Science Century Exciting Most Thing

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Best Know Way Intimacy Fiction Act

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

Food Green You More Cotton Cook

What I want is to be well-respected around all ages and all around the world.

Lucky Blue Smith

World Want Around Ages

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

Positive Talking Too Much Why Talk

I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Think Reality Questions Create Task

In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.

Live Homeless Week Out Apartment

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

Chuck Palahniuk

Time Wake Up Place Person Up Wake

I don't think I'm going to be back on 'This Is Us.' I think that Uncle Ricky had his moment; he did what he had to do.

Brian Tyree Henry

Moment Think Back Uncle Us Going

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred North Whitehead

Courage True Virtue Heroes Resolve

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