Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
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I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.
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There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.
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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.
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Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality...and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.
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'General Turquoise Blue?' asked Arthur. 'I didn't make Suzy a general, did I? I remember her talking about it, but I don't remember actually...' 'She probably just put on the uniform,' said Dr Scamandros. 'No one would question her.'
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The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song - not one. Not two.
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The squatters made a mural of a Mexican girlWith fifteen cans of spray paint and a chemical swirlShe's standing in the ashes at the end of the worldFour winds blowing through her hair.
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Through the fortunate effect of my frankness, I had the rarest and surest opportunity to know a man well, which is to study him at leisure in his private life and living, so to speak, with himself. For he share himself without reservation and made me feel as much at home in his house as in mine. I had almost no other abode than his own.
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A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.
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Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experiences, on and off the desktop. You don't even have to go to Facebook or Twitter to experience Facebook and Twitter content or to share third-party web content with your Twitter and Facebook friends.
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It is said that I'm distant and cold. I'm just someone who's very shy. I'm not comfortable doing interviews because I have to talk about myself. To talk about yourself, you have to know yourself pretty well and I feel like there are still some shades in me that I don't know about.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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College didn't stick, so I worked odd jobs, but I've always written songs and played music. I actually met a guy who was a songwriter, which I didn't realize was a real job.
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I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of art can be measured by the harm spoken of it. If you're not feeling that, then absolutely, why bother?
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Example is the best lesson there is.
