Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things that have nothing to do with physical education or special ed.

Ann Bancroft

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There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.

Steven T. Katz

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Whenever you're feeling grateful, you are not feeling frustrated and angry and all those negative states that we go into. And that's a big benefit in and of itself.

Srikumar Rao

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Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries that trade more and have more open economies are less likely to fight wars and less likely to have genocides.

Steven Pinker

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Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many things.

Tony Fernandes

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I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does it.

Tom Riley

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I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

Roger Daltrey

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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Rita Dove

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A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.

Matt Berninger

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The Williams girls compete extremely hard on court because they hate losing - it's just that they haven't played an awful lot of tennis over the years.

Martina Navratilova

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Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

Michelle Malkin

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Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

Douglas Coupland

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