Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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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?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Criticism
  • Old
  • Tradition

• 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.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Far

• 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.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Pain
  • Water

• I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Good
  • Game
  • Street

• Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Experience
  • Gold
  • Working

• 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.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Weakness
  • Disaster
  • Sequence

• I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Play
  • Crazy
  • Actor

• To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • English
  • More
  • Manners

• The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Nation

• 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.

  

  Larry Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

  

  Mahavira
  • Important
  • You
  • Environment

• I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Hope
  • House
  • Die

• 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.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Way
  • Like
  • Sports

• When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Living
  • Where

• For me, Warhol made so much sense.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Me
  • Made
  • Sense

• I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Different
  • School
  • Me

• I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • People

• I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

  

  John F. Kerry
  • War
  • Stop
  • Struggle

• 'Minecraft' is to a large degree about having unique experiences that nobody else has had. The levels are randomly generated, and you can build anything you want to build yourself.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Unique

• Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Live
  • Character
  • Nature

• We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Time
  • Live
  • Feels

• I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Live
  • Decision