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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You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.
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Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.
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I'm probably an overcompensating introvert. I live in Hollywood, but I don't go to parties where I have to work the room. I could do that, but I don't want to... I try and stay the same and live a fairly normal life.
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It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
