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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On airlines, so many passengers' faces are buried in John Grisham books, they could be complimentary copies for Grisham Airlines.
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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in any given situation. We just have to be quiet enough to let that course of action present itself to us. And we need the confidence to act when life shows us what we need to do.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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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.
