Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
Roosevelt's strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured Congress.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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Texting is incredibly anxiety-laden, but I know people who will have a full-blown panic attack if you call them. I'm one of those nightmare humans where the little mailbox has an ellipsis on it because I have 1000 unread emails. So texting is the most immediate yet least anxious of all the incredibly anxious ways that we talk to each other.
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She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.
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For me personally, Elliott Carter was and remains one of the most meaningful composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries because he represents substance. He was the living proof of uncompromising, complex music, which at first seems inaccessible. But it becomes accessible if one digs in and sees the development through.
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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Roosevelt's strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured Congress.
