Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school; I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and amoebae through a rather primitive toy microscope.
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I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.
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I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.
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But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.
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Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
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The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.
