Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Free
  • Gun
  • Going

• I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Disrespect

• I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Media

• It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Great
  • She
  • Play

• Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Filmmaking

• To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Kind
  • Special
  • Old

• I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Name
  • Changed

• I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Lazy
  • Shoot

• I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Team
  • Feel

• I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • America
  • Architecture

• The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • World
  • Light
  • Best

• I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
  • Work
  • Important
  • Fashion

• I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Life
  • God
  • Money

• New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Born
  • New
  • Lived

• I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Person
  • Learn

• It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Time
  • Imagination

• VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Country
  • Friends
  • American

• I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • School
  • History
  • Always

• Sometimes I like to draw.

  

  Benjamin Stockham

• Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet.

  

  Daniela Hantuchova
  • Important
  • High
  • Hope

• I remember my first 'Sports Illustrated' shoot was with the photographer Walter Iooss, and Julie Campbell was the editor, and we were at the president of Mexico's private house in Cancun - this was before anything else that's now in Cancun even existed. And they told me to get a tan, so I spent all morning in the sun, and I was burnt.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Remember
  • House
  • Morning

• The more we educate folks, the more it will help them make informed policy decisions.

  

  Suzan DelBene
  • Decisions
  • Policy
  • Educate

• It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt