Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.'

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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• When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Moving

• Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • College

• I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Company

• I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Friends
  • Star

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Life
  • Family
  • Love

• My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Friends
  • Joy
  • WIld

• To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Together

• I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Great
  • Country
  • Friends

• He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
  • Enemies
  • DIsliked

• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Friends
  • Place
  • Come

• I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • War
  • Help
  • Win

• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Friends
  • Listening
  • Creative

• I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Parents

• When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dreams of being an actress. Kids back home in Texas, who I thought were my friends, were saying things behind my back. They said that I would never make it because I wasn't talented or pretty enough to be on TV.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Problem
  • Sweet
  • Challenges

• I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Age
  • Think
  • Reading

• The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Want
  • Proud
  • Irresponsible

• I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Daily

• I feel like in a lot of ways I can relate to the fans, just being a fan of music myself.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Music

• I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.'

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Friends
  • March