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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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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The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.
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Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.
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I don't think I can change the fact that the court can cancel a law, but I think the court should only get involved in extreme issues like human rights violations.
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My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more.
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When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.
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It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
