Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Quotes to Explore
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Broadway is really my life.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.
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"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.
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It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'.
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Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.
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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
