Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
We know that we still have far to go; that we must more greatly build the security and the opportunity and the knowledge of every citizen, in the measure justified by the resources and the capacity of the land.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.
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I've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it.
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We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
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We know that we still have far to go; that we must more greatly build the security and the opportunity and the knowledge of every citizen, in the measure justified by the resources and the capacity of the land.
