Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside. It always depended on other people making him feel good about himself, which meant that he was always beholden, continually needing to succeed. He could never stop. There was such a restlessness in him.Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
Zachary Quinto -
I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
Daniel Craig -
What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
Naomi Klein -
Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
Ban Ki-moon -
However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
Randy Neugebauer -
War is over if you want it.
Yoko Ono
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I am a just man.
Fidel Castro -
A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
Fanny Kemble -
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
E. Franklin Frazier -
I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
Famke Janssen -
My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
Uzo Aduba -
As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
B. D. Wong
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I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
Octavia Spencer -
And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
Zola Jesus -
The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
Adam McKay -
I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
Octavia E. Butler -
I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
Carla Hall
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Supersonic bionic robot voodoo power Equator ex my chance to flex skills on Ampex
Keith Matthew Thornton -
Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.
David L. Wolper -
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
Jon Meacham -
Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.
Chris Pavone -
I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside. It always depended on other people making him feel good about himself, which meant that he was always beholden, continually needing to succeed. He could never stop. There was such a restlessness in him.
Doris Kearns Goodwin