Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.
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What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.
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The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.
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Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
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I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
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I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
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My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.
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The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.
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There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.
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I behave differently in different situations, and I'm slightly unstable and insecure, which I think are natural conditions of what I do. And I have a weird ear. Whatever I hear, I emulate. When I was a kid I did impressions: Forrest Gump, Rain Man, really big caricatures.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
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The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
