Franklin Quotes - Page 10

• My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where are the life-size-or even pint-size-Benjamin Franklins of today?

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Hero, Men, History

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• I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as Eigen or Bragg or Pauling, nor was she as good as Dorothy Hodgkin. She did not even select DNA to study. It was given to her. Her theoretical crystallography was very average.

  Francis Crick

  Science, Thinking, Dna

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• It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Character, Men, Should Have

  Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

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• I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle

  KRS-One

  Rap, Car, Lasts

  Song: My Life, Album: Life, 2006

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• Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin

  GZA

  Rap, Light, Pockets

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• Franklin Roosevelt is one of the great leaders because he does get along with other people. He makes this huge effort. He's a very charming man. He tries to bring Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill into this tripartite agreement to run the world. And he really was close. If he hadn't died in April of '45, the whole history would be different.

  Oliver Stone

  Running, Men, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.

  Oliver Stone

  Running, Helping, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Leaders such as Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Franklin D. Roosevelt and others promulgated a vision and a moving story of how their people could achieve a great purpose.

  Philip Kotler

  Moving, People, Leader

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. May 10, 2015.

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• Effective leaders at a high level tend to be skilled actors. Franklin Roosevelt is said to have to quipped, on being introduced to Orson Welles, that they were the two greatest actors in America. The story may be apocryphal, but the message rings true.

  James M Strock

  Leader, Rings

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• I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

  Jonny Lang

  Artist, Listening, Different

  "Meet & Greet Monday : Conversations with Jonny Lang and DJ Steve Porter". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.

  George Thorogood

  People, Knows

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• People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

  Joss Stone

  White, People, Wish

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

  Ernie Isley

  People, Greek, Bakers

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• Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

  Robert Hormats

  Jobs, Names, Innovation

  "The Road to an Effective Innovation Diplomacy" by Robert Hormats, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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• There are bursts of things like Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan or Franklin Delano Roosevelt or same-sex marriage that change very much what we thought we were all about.

  Cass Sunstein

  Sex, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Abraham

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  People, Black, Singing

  Source: www.slate.com

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• In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract."

  Mike DeWine

  President, Constitution, Lawyer

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put forward best by Justice [Felix] Frankfurter, appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

  Sam Brownback

  Justice, Political, Ironic

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• It was really wonderful playing with Aretha [ Franklin]. I knew that she knew what she was doing, so all I had to do was sit in the background and vamp a little bit.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Littles, Wonderful, Backgrounds

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• I think you have to take the man and say to yourself, [Donald Trump] is someone who wants to occupy the Oval Office, where Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and people who were our president, and I don't think it's just a woman's issue. I think it's an issue that should be of concern to all Americans.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Barack Obama did get a higher percentage of the vote than anybody has in this country in 20 years. I mean, it was a resounding victory. I mean, whether his core constituency was 20 percent or what, his electoral constituency, which is how we measure elections, was 53 percent, which was, you know, historically high, the highest of any Democrat, other than Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.

  Mark Shields

  Country, Mean, Years

  "Shields and Brooks: Will Voters Think Democrats Have Gone Too Liberal?". PBS Newshour, www.pbs.org. July 22, 2010.

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• I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a lot of us who believe in open trade, open borders, a dynamic forward-looking economy, not a nostalgic economy, but do want to provide a significant level of social service or sort of economic Milton Friedman foreign policy, Ronald Reagan domestic policy, Franklin Roosevelt. And there's a lot of room in the center.

  David Brooks

  Believe, Thinking, Borders

  Source: www.npr.org

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• That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the United States. And there were famous incidents like with the MS Saint Louis, which brought a lot of immigrants, mostly Jewish, from Europe. It reached Cuba, with people expecting to be admitted to the United States from there. But the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt wouldn't allow them in and they had to go back to Europe where many of them died in concentration camps.

  Noam Chomsky

  Europe, People, Fleeing

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If you read Benjamin Franklin, who was one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment in the United States and the most distinguished representative of the movement here, he actually advised that the newly founded republic should block Germans and Swedes because they were too "swarthy" - dark.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Strong, Block

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well known, and still isn't.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reading, Wings, Support

  Source: thehumanist.com

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