Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

The arts in every field - music, drama, sculpture, painting - we can learn to appreciate and enjoy. We need not be artists, but we should be able to appreciate the work of artists. (5 November 1958)

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• I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.

  

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• Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

  

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• From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.

  

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• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

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• If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

  

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• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

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• Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

  

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• For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

  

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• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

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• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

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• To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

  

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• I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.

  

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• I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

  

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• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

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• The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

  

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• I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

  

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• The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

  

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• It's a huge achievement to have anyone wearing your clothes, and when they are in the limelight, it's the best advertisement for your brand.

  

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• I love you so, But why I love you, I'll never know.

  

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• Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

  

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• Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.

  

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• The arts in every field - music, drama, sculpture, painting - we can learn to appreciate and enjoy. We need not be artists, but we should be able to appreciate the work of artists. (5 November 1958)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
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