Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
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I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.
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I don't wear bright orange clothes or leopard skin boots, but it was really good fun to play someone that does and have an excuse too!
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A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.
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Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.
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Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.
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I'm really interested in starting to write my own songs. I never really did, but hopefully I will because I'm so interested in writing my own songs.
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Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen.
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I will stay very focused on my responsibilities as Secretary of Commerce and the economy's doing well. I mean, you asked about some of the challenges that we have or what is going on in the world and you know I, I'm pleased to report that the economy is doing extremely well.
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The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential.... In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men's minds.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
