Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

A dark old world was devastated by wars between conflicting religions. A dark modern world faces wars between conflicting economic and political fanaticisms in which are intertwined race hatreds.

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• Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.

  

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• Social revolutions are never simple.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

  

  Patrice Leconte
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• One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

  

  Jack Dee
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• I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Home
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• For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Nature
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• If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
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• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

  Fleur East
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• I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
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• Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

  

  Fiona Shaw
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• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
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• Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

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• I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.

  

  Warren Giles
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• The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Play
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• I'm very affected by what I watch and read.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Dark
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• When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Conformity

• Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Opportunity
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• The reality is, sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose, you're never too big to lose, you're never too smart to lose, it happens.

  

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• A dark old world was devastated by wars between conflicting religions. A dark modern world faces wars between conflicting economic and political fanaticisms in which are intertwined race hatreds.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
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