Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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I'm always going to love my father.
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As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.
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When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.
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I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.
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I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
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Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
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not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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If you lose faith, you lose all.
