Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.
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I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.
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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
