Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state.
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I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark Linn-Baker. You know - the guy from 'Perfect Strangers.'
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However, personally, I see this as not having the right to abuse this trust [among the citizens of Russia and Japan], and any decision we reach should correspond to the national interests of the Russian Federation.
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Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.
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We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
