Harry Hopkins Quotes

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!

Harry Hopkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: diplomat
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 17, 1890 - January 29, 1946

Topics

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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

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My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

John McLaughlin

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After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience.

Ann Hood

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My early windfall was a result of the excesses of the S&L era.

Jeff Greene

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This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.

Mitch Hedberg

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In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A.

Dianna Agron

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If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

Bodhidharma

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I'm usually pretty insecure.

Britt Daniel

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The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

Alice Rivlin

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Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

Tobias Wolff

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You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

Leo Kottke

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Whom we love, how we love... how can the State decide that for us?

Kubra Sait

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