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Quotes by First-lady
"Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice."
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"Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man."
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"I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books."
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"Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
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"It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."
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"If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively."
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"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
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"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed."
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"We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers."
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"He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist."
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"Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open."
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"No one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone."
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"I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country."
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"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"
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"I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view."
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"Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world."
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"My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?"
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"It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."
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"All of life is a constant education."
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"The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that, you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
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"Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world."
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"I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady."
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"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
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"If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters."
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"Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice."
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"When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone and be counted."
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"Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it."
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"It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean."
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"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."
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"I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time."
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"An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor."
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"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."
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"I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since."
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"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
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"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."
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"The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse."
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"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
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"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it."
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"I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view."
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"Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?"
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"The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity."
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"Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York."
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"Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide."
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"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
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"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
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