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Roosevelt was a big collector -- stamps, models. His whole house was brimming with stuff.


Benjamin Hufbauer

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I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.
J. AUGUST RICHARDS It was very pretentious to think we could earn enough money with stamps to build a house. But here w...
EMMA ZAIAC My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champa...
WINSTON CHURCHILL He was very impressed with Theodore Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt used to say 'you have to get into...
EVELYN FOX There was a bunch of rockets and stuff, like toy rockets, models and stuff like that.
BILL DIXON George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford...
JEFF GREENFIELD Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.
GAYLORD NELSON I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a cert...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN This is serious car collector stuff.
MATT STONE There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalt...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN You can agree or disagree with Ronald Reagan's policies, his conservatism. I was less conservative t...
DAVID GERGEN When our plates were issued last July, I had no idea how big the license plate collector market was.
JANE HEATH I was an avid Pokemon card collector.
FLUME The whole house was engulfed. It melted the siding on my house - the heat was so extreme.
JACK GREEN The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
CALISTA FLOCKHART He had good stuff today. He had a good fastball and was keeping kids off-balance with his breaking s...
JOE ARCHULETA There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny peopl...
DAVID CROSS He was a collector of knives. They pulled him over to see what was in his luggage. They saw that he ...
MOHAMMED BABAR Remember when $25, 000 was a success? Now it is a garbage collector.
FRANK DANE It bore absolutely no resemblance to the 'rude cabin' described by racial detractors, ... and was su...
ROBERT REED I'm collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them...
FRANCES WINKLER I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.
MOBY Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN Carroll was a big factor for us with his strong pitching.
JASON JONES He was a noble collector whose name is indelibly linked to this masterpiece.
CHEN XIEJUN Monday night, I was taking down all the stuff from his hospital room, and I was telling him we had t...
AMY STOCKTON Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He w...
MICHAEL MCDOWELL Every Sunday he would cook big dinners at his house. He was such a storyteller. And I never saw him ...
GLENN KROLL This was a gift from the ex-president Teddy Roosevelt.
KEITH GREENE It amazes me how they rewrite history, and they get away with it.
BENJAMIN HUFBAUER Some presidential libraries are so celebratory that they verge on propaganda.
BENJAMIN HUFBAUER It was pretty sweet. Big Sky Board Sports was with us the whole way. Simon Elston helped coach our t...
GABE BLOMQUIST Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. ...
EMANUEL CELLER Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
GAYLORD NELSON But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
BIBLE The shape of his stuff was the big thing. I wasn't concerned about strikeouts, because there weren't...
JOE TORRE The money was not effective. The contracting was wrong. The whole planning was wrong. … It's a big ...
MUHSIN SHALASH I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to...
ANN RICHARDS He was loading stuff into his truck.
TERRY NICHOLS We were scared. The hurricane was coming. I miss my house. I miss my stuff.
BRANDON WASHINGTON Shaw was outstanding. To his credit he hit some big shots with a hand in his face.
GREG MCDERMOTT James Caldwell was too big a person for just one activity. He was a great teacher and artist, a phil...
ALEX KLEIN When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.
CLAIRE DENIS One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face ...
JILL LEPORE Percy hated tests. Since he'd lost his memory, his whole life was one big fill-in-the-blank. He was ...
RICK RIORDAN It was scary. By the time the fire department got here, the whole house was in flames.
DONNIE THOMPSON He wants to build his own big facility on the other side of the ranch. He likes the amenities, but h...
GARRETT VENEKLASEN And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Be...
BIBLE I had to live with the models in one big house for two months, 24 hours a day. Only a few of them ac...
NYLE DIMARCO His stuff he had in Milwaukee was the same stuff he had tonight.
BRIAN MCCANN By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Re...
GORE VIDAL She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.
SHANNON L. ALDER Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.
RAHUL GANDHI Imagine Lake Michigan brimming with paint thinner.
CAROLYN PORCO It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.
PETER BUFFETT I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects st...
MICHAEL GAMBON I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad s...
BLAKE NELSON But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER I was build with bassically upon on a code... lie... what's a lie and so on and so on!?

-...
DEYTH BANGER The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She ...
KAREN DECROW I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no...
DAVE MUSTAINE To the conservation community, this is sacred ground. This is where the whole concept of conservatio...
LOWELL BAIER If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes re...
BIBLE She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was sti...
ANNA GODBERSEN I was uncertain about some of that, and with his experience with the board, that was a big issue I t...
RICK CLARK I love Teddy Roosevelt... As a country, we need to think big again.
RYAN ZINKE We had some really powerful technology - Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were v...
NOLAN BUSHNELL You're a stalker with hooves."
"I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and...
RICK RIORDAN A lot of his stuff was a lot slower, so there was a period of time where we were all worried. I was ...
AARON STERN All those days had been removed, simply and precisely, whole weeks brimming with cloudless blue skie...
KAREN FOXLEE I was asleep for almost ten years. And then this big goober with all these fucking weird animals mov...
AMY LANE They made off with four computers and some petty cash. Some money that was left around to buy stamps...
BILL BRENNAN His whole face was just mashed.
JEAN RICHES I was never going 'I want a big car and a house in France' and all that,
ARABELLA WEIR He just wondered why a bomb was put in front his house.
DEFENCE MINISTER THAMMARAK ISARANGURA But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mis...
BIBLE The best dowry, a man can get in his marriage is a brand new house along with his wife and a man des...
APURVA GAGLANI I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of op...
ANNE HECHE My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jac...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU The whole house came up and I came up with it, ... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me...
WILLIE NELSON She was a big factor in his success.
LAURENCE GLASCO he was going to stay and watch his house.
TONY JOHNSON 'Side A' was a project that I wanted to do, stuff that I produced completely, and it was jus...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE fringe oddball (races) and the really big stuff ... trying to understand this whole bike world.
GARY FISHER A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I lived in the house with him and was his man Friday, I guess you could say. I took care of the hous...
CARL JACKSON This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux In...
MARC FORGIONE There was a little path through the trees (to his house). It was yellow. It looked pretty sweet.
BRETT BERGMAN His house was an open home for visitors. We believe it was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
WENDELL LAUTH By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER 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 I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL That was a big joy for Ronald. We went out there and we checked out the house.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an e...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Finality is not the language of politics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI In politics, nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Amusement to an observing mind is study.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish gre...
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