Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
Quotes to Explore
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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All of my businesses are profitable.
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
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The dearest things I know are what you are.
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The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.
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I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.
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Family makes a house a home.
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I've always loved the use of the word 'thick' when it comes to heavy because it's always a positive thing.
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I'm grateful I got the opportunity to do it because I know this now. If anybody ever asked me to do a daytime show again I would go no, no. I can't do that. Not because it's beneath me. It's above me. It's beyond my resources.
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The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
