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.
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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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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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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.
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But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody.
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People might say paper is dead or dying, but actually, it's not at all. It's just more rarified. The choice to send paper has more meaning because of the fact that you don't have to.
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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.
