Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I never was a very good singer.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.
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What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.
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When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I'm fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.
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I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.
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The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
