Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I owe everything to France.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.
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Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.
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As Duke Ellington once said, 'the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton.' ... About that Wellington guy, I wouldn't know. Ellington, yes. As for that Eton business - well, I married my first wife in Elkton, and I always hated the place. It musta stuck.
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When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.
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Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
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I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
