Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? (16 October 1939)
Quotes to Explore
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? (16 October 1939)
