Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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They call me Fearless Felix.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'
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Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.
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My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.
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I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
