Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
To us there has come a time, in the midst of swift happenings, to pause for a moment and take stock - to recall what our place in history has been, and to rediscover what we are and what we may be. If we do not, we risk the real peril of inaction.
Quotes to Explore
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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I have been maturing as a teacher.
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I am going to get officers training to deescalate situations, ban racial profiling, and make body cameras available.
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To us there has come a time, in the midst of swift happenings, to pause for a moment and take stock - to recall what our place in history has been, and to rediscover what we are and what we may be. If we do not, we risk the real peril of inaction.
