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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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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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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I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
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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 would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.
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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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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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My interest in theater really began in the '70s when American realism wasn't really in favor. I really dreaded going into a play that had a toaster that worked. I just didn't want to see that.
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The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.
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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
