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ELEANOR MONDALE I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
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ELEANOR MONDALE I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
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PAUL HOLLYWOOD If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United...
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RICK RIORDAN The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
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BILL GATES Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on telev...
BEVERLEY MITCHELL I pretty much figure a collar will do, but as time goes on, I'm hoping I learn how to throw a su...
BLAKE ANDERSON I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal esta...
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KIERSTON WAREING My confession begins," Father S said, "as the confessions of many men begin - with three words"
TIFFANY REISZ I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effectiv...
DAN QUAYLE I can't really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chick...
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JOE COWLEY I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, f...
CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN I can't help who I am. I'm just doing what I feel like I should do in my heart. If I was wal...
EVE I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines...
AARON SORKIN I have a saying - 'You treat me good, I'll treat you better. You treat me bad, I'll trea...
CHUCK ZITO I'm not a rude boy; I'm my own thing.
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CHARLOTTE RAMPLING He'd stopped trying to bring her back.
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EMO PHILIPS My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say...
JOHN MAYER I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
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CRAIG ROBINSON I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
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TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, b...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the thing you think you cannot do
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Whatever come we have to meet it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
ELEANOR BRON You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
ELEANOR POWELL Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be on...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
ELEANOR HAMILTON I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a...
ELEANOR CATTON My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified b...
ELEANOR CATTON Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
ELEANOR CLIFT The giving of love is an education in itself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most u...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the things you think you cannot do.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Can...
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