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It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.


Eleanor Roosevelt

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She ...
KAREN DECROW Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond wit...
ROBERT DALLEK It was the other way around, the forbidden was interested in her.
ASGHAR ABBAS She Eleanor Roosevelt got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
RALPH MCGILL She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
RALPH MCGILL She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
RALPH MCGILL She had a tragedy in her life, and was always interested in medicine, but it was always out of her r...
CLAUDE COLEMAN I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupa...
MAGGIE WILLIAMS She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
RALPH MCGILL Was it a good idea or not? Was it a good idea or not? ...Be straight, Eleanor!
RICH LOWRY But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deep...
JOHN T. FLYNN I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park an...
ALLEN FUNT I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becomin...
CASSANDRA WILSON It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when ...
BJORK But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, w...
BJORK We are interested in content. We are not interested just in governing, we are interested in politics...
CLAUDIA ROTH I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really w...
MICHAEL RIEDEL He was interested in politics, reading, good food and art. He was very energetic. He never stopped.
CHRIS DWYER She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The room was as big as the Duke of Pardloe's library and had at least as many books, and yet the fee...
DIANA GABALDON My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave not...
DOROTHY FIELDS People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.
DOUGLAS HURD The world always said to just be yourself, but it turned out when Evelyn was herself, no guys were a...
STEPHANIE CLIFFORD But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whet...
EDDIE HUANG Eleanor Roosevelt, during the years that she was first lady had a home at Washington Square park in ...
CARL ANTHONY Eleanor Roosevelt, during the years that she was first lady had a home at Washington Square park in ...
CARL SFERRAZZA ANTHONY The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's a...
RICHARD DAWKINS Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The timing of it could not be better for myself. Not only was I interested in it, I was excited abou...
MIKE DUBOSE I am interested in politics.
DAVE MUSTAINE I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.
MIKE WALLACE I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things....
ALEXANDER LEBEDEV An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is ...
HONORE DE BALZAC An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE You have to be a poker player and be able to read whether a guy is really interested or not.
LES ROBINSON I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not...
SAM HUNT I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research beca...
BERNARD BARUCH I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research beca...
BERNARD M. BARUCH People should be interested in books, not their authors.
AGATHA CHRISTIE I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don&#...
DAVID SANBORN I was interested in politics, thought I had good speaking abilities. I talked with Mr. Oliver about ...
HENRY ADAMS Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found tha...
ALISON WEIR I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act o...
STEVE MARTIN If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER Anyone who says they are not interested in politics is like a drowning man who insists he is not int...
MAHATMA GANDHI The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens w...
BASSEM YOUSSEF My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE It seemed unusual to us that Sen. Stevens would be interested in this mine in particular. He's been ...
CHRISTY SETZER It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL 'Star Wars' was something that I was definitely interested in. Whether or not I was really i...
JACK REYNOR There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what th...
LAURIE COLWIN I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on wha...
NOREENA HERTZ When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I wo...
BRYAN BROWN I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as...
PAT OLIPHANT Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very ec...
ATOM EGOYAN I think as the century closes draws to a close and we look back on public figures, ... we realize wh...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues...
CALVIN TRILLIN It was my sister's day. It was supposed to be special for (my sister) and her husband. Someone wante...
RICKY DIAMOND JR I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was alway...
MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN That's what attracted me to it. I wasn't interested in doing it if it was just going to be about try...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politi...
DAVID LLOYD I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country th...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN She applied online (for the math position), and I was told I might be interested in the name. I know...
BETH ROESNER Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
SOTONYE ANGA The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialec...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I really wasn't-how shall I say it-singly interested in Dean, but I was interested in the origins of...
DENNIS STOCK At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cag...
NICOLAS CAGE I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. Y...
JIM JORDAN When it was obvious that nobody was interested in a book about the 'Nazi' way we treat animals,
CHARLES PATTERSON I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the ...
PENELOPE LIVELY I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, ...
MARK SALLING An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television...
BILLE AUGUST Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
KAREN JOY FOWLER Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pict...
MARGARET WISE BROWN No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. On Eleanor Roosevelt
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
CLAIRE BOOTH LUCE It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in ther...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figu...
JACK DORSEY An embryo is an embryo, regardless of whether it exists in a dish or in a mother's womb,
BARBARA LYONS We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying...
STEPHEN KING My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, a...
JORGE M. PEREZ Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collect...
CHRIS WARE They show whether people are interested in working for your campaign.
CHARLES BROWN I was concerned that she would be interested in the job so that she could work out her own demons.
LINDA RICHARDS We really didn't know where it was. We knew it had some kind of history, but we didn't know what it ...
ELOY BENDITO Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one�...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.
JANE AUSTEN At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in Fran...
BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in r...
PAUL MULDOON I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I ...
BEL POWLEY But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing researc...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON It's unclear whether or not this vehicle was in any way involved in the incident. It is still of int...
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of ensla...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, a...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as muc...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A milestone passed, new things begun, dreams as shining as the sun, a goal achieved, a victory won! ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is neither unusual nor new for me to have Negro friends, nor is it unusual for me to have found m...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you sto...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do one thing everyday that scares you.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the sl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, an...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confi...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that peop...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT «Vous devez faire les choses que vous vous croyez incapable de faire.»
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. He dominated my life as long as he lived, an...
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