Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
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I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.
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I thank Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.
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Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.
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I feel that destiny is a mixture of preparation and luck. You can be very lucky, but it is useless if you're not prepared. You can be prepared, but it is useless if you're not lucky.1
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This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.
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We just wanted to go out and have some fun. And we knew the tour would do well. We just didn't really think it would do this well, which is always a really good thing.
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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
