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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: January 4, 1943

Topics

Wait Forward Recognition You Back

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Strength Good Wisdom Knowledge Evil

I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like.

Accept Something Role Only Like

For me, being a part of the halcyon days of Pride Fighting Championships and then watching the explosion of the UFC following the 'Ultimate Fighter,' I've been fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.

Time Me Pride Fighting Place Right

I've got my life and 'Harry Potter,' where I travel the world, I make films, I meet amazing people, I do press junkets and stuff. And then I go back home to Leeds, where I live, and I've got the same friends from before.

Life Home Live Travel People World

You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.

People Constitution Rest Independence

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Success Failure Fear Sometimes Two

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

Money Gangster Early Paradise Get

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.

Roberto Benigni

Mother Truth Ugly Me Thought Year

Of course, I can't wait until I get the medal and I can walk around the house and say, 'Daddy, I got you.'

Michelle Carter

Walk Wait You House I Can Say

It doesn't cost money to let people keep more of their own money. It costs money to spend money you don't have, but that's another issue.

Money People You More Cost Own

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Future You Down Meet Run Going

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Think Anonymous Than I Think Less

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