Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
The White House is such an extraordinary, simple, beautiful place. It's an extraordinary piece of our history, because it is the one thing that binds our country together. We don't have a king obviously, but we have this president, and the fact that almost all of them have lived in the same place, and so much history took place in those rooms. You can't help but feel awe-inspired by being there.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
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If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.
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This is one of the toughest, most complex pieces of legislation that we've tried to put together in our lifetime.
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Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for your team and then form your opinion of my worth to your team. I assure you that I am delighted to be a Pirate and that I will do my best to bring another pennant to the Smoky City.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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The White House is such an extraordinary, simple, beautiful place. It's an extraordinary piece of our history, because it is the one thing that binds our country together. We don't have a king obviously, but we have this president, and the fact that almost all of them have lived in the same place, and so much history took place in those rooms. You can't help but feel awe-inspired by being there.
