Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
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The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
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My private life stays private.
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Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
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Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a U.S. senator from the state of Connecticut.
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I do love my work, but Daddy likes a little break, too.
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I was always pretty good at designing things.
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What is more, let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, he who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.
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And he wanted a wife. He wanted to raise children. He wanted to prove that goodness wasn’t beaten into children, that fear was not the fount from which virtue flowed. He wanted to be able to gather his family in his arms and know that not one of them dreaded the sight of him, or felt the need to lie to him in order to have his love.
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Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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If someone is judging you without knowing the content of your character, don't listen to them.
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No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
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Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.
