Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
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I broke things to get attention.
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I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
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Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
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I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.
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The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.
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He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
