Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to a more cosmopolitan student population and beginning to take the first tentative steps toward mitigating the evils of a pyramidal social system that concentrated all its social honors upon the rich and the wellborn.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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My specialty at 'SNL' was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, 'Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What's a better big laugh for this towards the end? What's a better physical joke in this?' And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well.
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This does not mean that we need treat all as equally true: it is up to individuals and groups to make up their minds. Freedom of faith allows for rich diversity of judgements as to the truth.
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I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
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While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to a more cosmopolitan student population and beginning to take the first tentative steps toward mitigating the evils of a pyramidal social system that concentrated all its social honors upon the rich and the wellborn.
