Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to. ~Jackson Browne
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size. ~Ronnie Coleman
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life. ~Steve Wozniak
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. ~Anna Kournikova
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For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it. ~Justin Bartha
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I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. ~Brad Goreski
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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