Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: first
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 11, 1884 - November 7, 1962

Topics

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I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.

Andrew Dost

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In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

Jeff Goodell

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I'm fairly competitive.

Michael Fassbender

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Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

Sophie Marceau

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People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.

Tom Kenny

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Some Marine units actually use 'An Officer and a Gentleman' in their training programs.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

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I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Jay-Z

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I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.

Drew Barrymore

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When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank for me, but I just thought it was this fun thing that I was so excited to do. You got to be on the set and get a little bit of makeup and be on camera.

Chelan Simmons

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Most of our technology issues aren't partisan.

Suzan DelBene

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The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.

Peggy Fleming

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I'm always looking for something. Not in an unhappy way. I just like to try different things. I don't want to be morbid, but I'm not getting any younger.

Paul Weller

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