Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.
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Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.
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Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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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.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
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One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
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There's intense personal gratification in finding a mountain and becoming inspired by the aesthetics of an unclimbed line on that mountain, especially if that line has been tried by a lot of people who couldn't do it, and you get to set yourself up against the history of it.
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I remember hanging out at Starbucks. There were these older guys who would sit around and play Crosby, Stills & Nash songs. I was just so in love with music. I would just go hang out with them, and I would try to sing and harmonize with them. I didn't even know the songs.
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We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
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Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.
