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H. W. Brands Quotes

I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 7, 1953

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Short Easy Why Become President He

I got 'The Grey' made because Liam Neeson wanted to make that movie.

Grey Got Because Make Made Movie

We lived in Colorado, and my parents were outdoorsy mountain people. My father would always say, 'Go out and don't come back until you have something to show me.' Which meant he wanted me to come back with a scraped knee or an injury. When I went out to play, I felt like I'd better get hurt.

Father Mountain Parents People Me

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Business Brain Think Original Idea

Bad company corrupts good character.

Good Character Bad Company Corrupts

Most elite big men are high maintenance.

Men Maintenance High Elite Big Most

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

Heart Wishes Plans Different Your

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Good Book Long You Bad Early

I have stood on the shoulders of giants like Billie Jean King, Hillary Clinton, my mother - people who have really empowered and influenced my life in an incredible way.

Life Mother King People My Life Way

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

Character Imagination Book Think You

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

Death Tax Unfair Immoral Inefficient

I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.

Love Women Hate Never Veil Shape

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

History Art People Looks Who Works

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