Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
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Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.
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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
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My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
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My mother was a single mom whose days were spent as a customer service rep at Con Edison in downtown Brooklyn.
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When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around.
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If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see.
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Our strategy has been to change the subject a bit so that we can get the issue of intelligent design, which really means the reality of God, before the academic world and into the schools.
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
