Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
Quotes to Explore
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.
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There is no suspense in inevitability.
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I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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Avarice is a deadly sin.
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I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
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The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
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I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.
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If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.
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'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just give you a 'What's up?' and that's it.
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As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
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I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.
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I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.
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It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
