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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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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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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The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
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If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.
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I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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.
