Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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When I left the Giants in 2014, my comments were emotional, insensitive, and misguided, and I truly regret and apologize for my actions. I am committed to working hard to contributing to the success of the Giants.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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I shop more than most women.
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I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.
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Fear God and work hard.
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I have a track record of going out and talking to my constituents and then standing up and representing them. That's what people want.
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Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.
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The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition.
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In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
