Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

  

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• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
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• We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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• And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
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• I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

  

  Imre Kertesz
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• Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

  

  Karen Abbott
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• If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.

  

  Candace Parker
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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.

  

  Carlos Ponce
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• Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

  

  Irwin Winkler
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• I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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• Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

  

  Sam Yagan
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• Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.

  

  Laraine Day
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• Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

  

  Babasaheb
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• Fascism is very much a mob movement.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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• We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• I first visited the Philippines when I was 29. I thought I would feel at home there, but I felt more out of place than I did in the U.S. I discovered I was more American than Filipino. It was shattering because I never felt quite at home in the U.S., either.

  

  Alex Tizon
  • Home
  • American

• Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal reserves.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
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• I'm a volleyball player, so I like Lycra and Spandex.

  

  Lauren Gibbs
  • Player
  • Volleyball

• Best-friend tattoos require so much prep work, which adds to their legitimacy. First, a friendship must be deep enough to warrant the rite; then the perfect symbol must be found to forge the bond.

  

  Jenna Wortham
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• Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • American