Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
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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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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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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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What hope has any endeavor which is based on hate and fear?
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The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
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Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.
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When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
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I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.
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The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
