Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.
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Life for my family was a real struggle, as it was for most in those farming communities in Alabama.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.
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My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.
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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
