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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

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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Father Age Service Me Church Years

Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.

Jim McKay

Career Tragedy Event Terrible Most

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

Anna Neagle

People Me Enough Long Down Grind

I have specifically argued that we need to change our relationship with the European Union by fundamentally reforming not just our relationship but the European Union itself.

Michael Gove

Change Relationship Need Union Just

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.

John Updike

Art Body House More Fiction Us

When I was around 16 or 17, I got asked to model, but because I was very 'tomboy' at the time, I wasn't interested. But then I had a bit of teenage rebellion, and I saw modeling as an opportunity to get away from school and parents, so I thought, 'OK, maybe I will be a model.'

Suki Waterhouse

Opportunity Time School Parents Will

I always thought, like everyone, that Hollywood was a superhero factory.

Denis Villeneuve

Thought Hollywood Always Everyone

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

Chris Cleave

Lovers Being Like Married Thing

With over 70 licensees, not sure if there is much left. Maybe oxygen? Ed Hardy is unique in that we have a broad range of products and something for everyone.

Christian Audigier

Unique Over Everyone Left Something

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

Brandon Routh

Growing Up Small You Small Town Up

It never really worked out for me in my own country. They said, 'You're not famous enough for the lead roles, and you're too present for the supporting roles - you'd overpower the lead.'

Antje Traue

Me Present Famous Enough You Said

I used to drink. I didn't like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd Mayweather never drinks - and he is the blueprint for boxing.

Anthony Joshua

Reading Boxing Drink Never Used He

I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

Shane Black

Myself Think Way My Own Audience