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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945

Topics

Progress People Political Down Go

I always used to be the villain or the comic butt of some show.

Robert Preston

Villain Butt Always Used Show Some

There are some people who were born with good timing, and I think my comic timing is pretty solid.

John Ross Bowie

Good People Think Born Timing Solid

My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.

Stephanie Herseth

Great Service People Me Influence

I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

Rufus Wainwright

Beautiful Words Think Say Line Fan

But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure!

Rupert Holmes

Failure First Critics Everyone Only

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Luc de Clapiers

Live Great Die Great Things Achieve

We all, as actors, have to fight these battles, where it's like, 'OK, that's a little far-fetched.'

Josh Bowman

Fight Battles Little Where Like OK

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

Don Cheadle

Friend Back My Own Rapper Own Used

I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think it says everything about stewardship of the land and about the nourishment of a nation.

Alice Waters

Think Talking Landscape House White

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

William Hague

Power Great Trust People Control

Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.

Piet Mondrian

Culture See Abstract Representation

When I signed with Scooter Braun and I decided to go overseas to promote my song, the only concern was how should I communicate with the public and the audience with my language. Scooter and I talked a lot about that: should we translate or not? Finally we didn't, and I think that was a really good decision.

Psy

Good Decision Song Think Language