Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
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I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school was by far the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
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Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.
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My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.
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The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
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I like action-adventure movies.
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Just trying to buy me some time, then I remembered this magic trick - vocalizes the Inspector Gadget theme song, Go-Go-Gadget-Dick!
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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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There's no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40, they're anything less than amazing. That's crazy. If anything, you're even more amazing!
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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
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You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.
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The main thing for a bowler is his wrist position, and that, as I've said before, is something I'm working on.
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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
