Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.
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So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.
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The problem with faith, is that it really is a conversation stopper. Faith is a declaration of immunity to the powers of conversation. It is a reason, why you do not have to give reasons, for what you believe.
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I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.
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Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell 'my' sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.
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I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman.
