Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. … All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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People trash talk me.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.
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Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
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I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
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I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.
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Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. … All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
