Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  

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• But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

  

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• Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.

  

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• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

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• Twitter should ban my mother.

  

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• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

  

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• Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.

  

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• Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

  

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• No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!

  

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• I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.

  

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• My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

  

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• Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.

  

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• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

  

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• Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

  

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• I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.

  

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• I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

  

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• We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

  

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• I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French.

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• I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

  

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• I have this big kid in me. I indulge him; I let him out to horse around. I think I'm being a great old man.

  

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• Well, there are certain stock words that I have found myself using a great deal. When I become aware of them, it is an alarm signal meaning I am falling back on something that has served in the past-it is a sign of not thinking at the present moment, not that there is anything intrinsically bad about certain words or phrases.

  

  John Ashbery
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• I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

  

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• The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
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