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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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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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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We have this day to be alive. We better lay down and give up, or stand up and really make some worthwhile memories for ourselves. 'Cause we're not going to be alive forever
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I'm not gay, but I'm still the kind of guy where, even though you have no chance, they still want to hang around me so you can get a good mental image and jerk off to me later.
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Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.
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Most of the people who fail in what they want to accomplish do so because they underestimate who they are. When they don’t believe they can succeed at something, they have little chance.
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The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
