Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes - Page 3

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• An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.

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  School, Adults

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• I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

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  Book, Dozen

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (2009). “Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to a more cosmopolitan student population and beginning to take the first tentative steps toward mitigating the evils of a pyramidal social system that concentrated all its social honors upon the rich and the wellborn.

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  Son, Doors, Class

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• Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at times by a profound sadness that even his own resilient temperament could not dispel.

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  Pain, Sadness, Profound

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006). “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln”, p.724, Simon and Schuster

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• I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

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  Book, Two, Want

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• Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But the Kennedy tale-the spiral compound of glory, achievement, degradation and almost mythical tragedy-exerts a fascination upon us that goes beyond their public achievements.

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  Family, Powerful, Impact

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• The turn of the century was the age of the banker, so much so that the leading bankers of the day had become legendary figures in the public imagination-vast, overshadowing behemoths whose colossal power seemed to reach everywhere.

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  Imagination, Age, Bankers

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• I think, as a president, you have to want respect. You can't look for love from the American people. You have to just do what you think is right. Some people will hate you, but others, in the long run, will respect you for what you've done.

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  Running, Hate, Thinking

  "Lessons of Presidential Leadership". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

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  Mother, Who I Am, Wife

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• Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

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  Sports, Retirement, Motivation

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• It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.

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  Thinking, Years, People

  "Lessons of Presidential Leadership". American Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you can't say, "It happened." Do the best you can with what you think happened, but a lot of other people are going to see it happening differently.

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  Educational, Thinking, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• When I do research, I have done - 90 percent of my time is the research, the other ten percent is the writing. So I don't have to face a blank piece of paper. I can look at this as a quote that I have from somewhere.

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  Writing, Faces, Looks

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they would learn about history, they would learn about human nature. They would learn about, "Can the individual make a difference or is it great forces?" Tolstoy is always battling with those large issues. Mostly, a whole world would come alive for them through that book.

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  War, Reading, Book

  "Lessons of Presidential Leadership". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I didn't know before. That's the glory of writing. It's not even so much the writing, it's what you learn - especially history - because so much of it is research.

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  Book, Writing, Research

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession. I was lucky enough to win the Pulitzer Prize for History. I had to give a talk right after that to some young people. The most important thing to tell them, I think, is that you can't ever know that it's going to turn out that way.

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  Thinking, Winning, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

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  Dream, Memorial, President

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• The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

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  Writing, Technology, Errors

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• A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.

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  People, Campaigns, Movie Sets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to believe that without my personal renderings of all those games he missed while he was at work, he would be unable to follow our team in the only proper way a team should be followed, day by day, inning by inning. In other words, without me, his love for baseball would be forever incomplete.

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  Baseball, Father, Team

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• I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.

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  Gun, Thinking, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.

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  Team, Knowing, People

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• People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

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  People, Enemy, Made

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• Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.

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  War, Support, Progress

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

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  Arrogance, Taft, Littles

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