Caroline Kennedy Quotes
The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Les sanglots longsDes violonsDe l'automneBlessent mon cœurD'une langueurMonotone.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.
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The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.
