Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.12 (15 June 1946)

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• I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

  

  Maira Kalman
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• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• I think music sharing of any kind is great.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

  

  Octavio Paz
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• When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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• No sport - maybe no business - is more entrepreneurial than boxing.

  

  Tahl Raz
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• After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.

  

  Venus Williams
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• I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

  

  Edith Sitwell
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• The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • Live
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• When we fight we're going to fight fight, for real fight. He thinks he's the ninja, I'm the ninja- Ninja Gaiden, American ninja, real motherfucking ninja. This ninja martial artist right here-I started that shit.

  

  Nate Diaz
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• This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.'

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Earth
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• You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Heart
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• Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
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• Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads

• It's like 60 Minutes on acid.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads

• I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • Life
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• I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

  

  Beth Gutcheon
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• We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • Future
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  • Stop

• The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• I sat at the computer at work, debugging. I was bored. It was afternoon. I was twenty-two. It was June. Along the front range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, thunderheads move in almost every afternoon between May and early July. They materialize, darken the day, spit a few drops, open the sky with lightning, then disappear like so many dreams.

  

  Derrick Jensen
  • Work
  • May
  • Sky

• Heed not the night; A summer lodge amid the wild is mine, 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'Tis mantled by the vine.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Night
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  • Tree

• He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.

  

  Fra Angelico
  • Work
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• It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.12 (15 June 1946)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • June