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Quotes by First-lady
"It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you."
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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
40
"A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning."
40
"Actors are one family over the entire world."
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"I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors."
40
"Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness."
40
"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation."
39
"In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do."
39
"Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own."
39
"The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone."
39
"I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am."
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"When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable."
39
"You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it."
38
"Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?"
38
"I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them."
38
"But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine."
37
"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
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"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."
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"I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school."
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"You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way."
37
"I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have."
36
"If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home."
36
"Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within."
35
"I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us."
35
"They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls."
35
"I like politics. I like traveling in the United States."
35
"I mean, we are facing so many very, very important issues and those are the issues that you heard talked about last night from the Republican convention, and that you'll hear my husband talk about. And those are the really important issues facing our country right now."
35
"It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart."
34
"Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'"
34
"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."
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"If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father."
34
"I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder."
33
"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."
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"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances."
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
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"The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband."
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"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."
32
"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
32
"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares."
32
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
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"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."
31
"Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library."
31
"It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years."
31
"I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too."
30
"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize."
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"Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves."
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