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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Benjamin Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Business Mistake First Going Public

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.

Farmer You Know President First Who

I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.

Job World Think Artist Reflect Her

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that's not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living.

Life Community Reflection School

It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.

Good People Doing You Know Nice

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.

Woman You Know Same Years Been

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

Imagination You Skills Actor Turn

Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

Brain Thought Behavior Genes Affect

People are slowly realizing that they're looking at drag all the time. 'Mrs. Doubtfire.' 'Real Housewives.' Peewee Herman. Don't let calling it drag make you uncomfortable.

Time People Looking Uncomfortable

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

Looking Speed You Down Earth More

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Duck Mouth Look Way Up Nose

I'm terrible on the phone. I just text my friends and family and say, 'Hey, I'm in town.'

Family Friends And Family Friends Say

I'd photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which made him the perfect subject for me - I realised that rock n' rollers were the modern equivalent of all the poets I was so enamoured with.

Me Musicians Perfect Rock Him Aura

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