Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.
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More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
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Wilder would say, 'Ninety minutes for this picture is all my bum can take in a seat',
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For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.
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It's a tremendous challenge now: to make sure the green economy is big enough that there is enough labor demand that people who've been thrown out of work can be re-employed AND people who are new to the workforce can be employed. And that is going to be very difficult.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
