Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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For me, Warhol made so much sense.
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I think at times of significant stress people are going to be looking for something and they don't always know exactly what it is that they're looking for and they may opt for change even if they're not entirely confident what that change will bring.
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You know, when you're young, God sweeps you up. He holds you there. The real snag is to stay there and to know how to fall. All those days when you can't hold on any longer. When you tumble. The test is being able to climb up again.
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I mean, yeah, I want to lose some weight! I'm doing the best I can.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
