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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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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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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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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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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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.
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Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
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I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.
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My precious brothers and sisters, I come to you today speaking on behalf of Christ, His love and His mercy for us all. Jesus came to set the captives free. And He Himself said that whoever the Son sets free, is free indeed . . . We love you with Christ's love, unconditionally and always.
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The first time I moved to L.A., I was there for five months, and my health got so bad because of how depressed I was.
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It's symbolic of how I feel, with cameras on every street corner. Being watched all the time, having my sense of freedom invaded. Privacy is an important thing, and it has been eroded over the past few years. Now they're talking about body scans at airports. Democracy becomes a sham the second you have to give way to authorities who can do any kind of search that they want with you.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
