Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.
Quotes to Explore
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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Luckily, I have two of the coolest parents around. They're so open about having any and all experiences, so they never hindered us in any way by categorizing or judging anything.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.
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As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.
