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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One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.
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Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
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Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.
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The secret is to moisturize the face. I've been doing that since I was 17 years old. (on looking young)
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If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
