Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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• Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

  

  Tamara Tunie
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• I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

  

  Larry Wall
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• I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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• I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• It might be quite boring if you did something and thought it was perfect.

  

  Natasha Little
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• As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

  

  Rachel Roy
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• To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• The reason why Millennials are inspiring is what they give: the music they give.

  

  Luis Coronel
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• You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • Family

• One of the things that's fun about TV is it grows, and you set goals and aim towards stuff, and one of the writers has an idea, and you say, 'Ooh, that's so much cooler. Let's do that instead.' It's so much more fluid and organic that way, and that's the most fun part about it.

  

  Jed Whedon
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• Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

  

  Bobby Darin
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• If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

  

  Maurice Sendak
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• When you do movies, it's you have a 3-month family and then everybody goes away and then joins another family, you know?

  

  Ashton Kutcher
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• I grew up in Chicago, but when I was 12, I came to New York because I was doing an episode of 'Law & Order.'

  

  Keke Palmer
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• To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

  

  Pope Francis
  • God

• Don't be afraid to express yourself through fashion!

  

  Chanel Iman
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• People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'

  

  Mayte Garcia
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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.

  

  Gerald Seymour
  • Writing
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• If we have a phased redeployment where we're as careful getting out as we were careless getting in, then there's not reason why we shouldn't be able to prevent the wholesale slaughter I think some people have suggested might occur.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
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• Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Inspiration
  • Perish
  • Deteriorate

• I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
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