Jackie Kennedy Quotes - Page 3

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• I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

  Jackie Kennedy

  President, Widows, Littles

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• Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Famous Inspirational, Heart, Simple

  Press Statement issued the day before her marriage to Aristotle Onassis, "The New York Times", October 20, 1968.

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• Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Real, Eye, Home

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• A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Hate, Years, Paris

  The New York Times, September 15, 1960.

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• I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

  Jackie Kennedy

  Life, Husband, Home

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• Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Summer, Horse, July

  "A Hero for Our Time". Book by Ralph G Martin, 1983.

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• It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Looks, Stores, Discounts

  "Quoted in A Hero for Our Time". Book by Ralph G Martin, 1983.

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• Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

  Jackie Kennedy

  White, House, President

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• In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Daughter, Son, Issues

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• Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

  Jackie Kennedy

  Home, Eye, Looks

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• An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Mother, Encouragement, Editors

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• Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Care, Dear God, Servant

  Inscription for cards at her husband's funeral, November 25, 1963.

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• You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Lunch, Greek, Firsts

  "Ari". Book by Peter Evans, 1986.

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• To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight. Michael's book 'Moonwalk', provides a startling glimpse of the artist at work and the artist in reflection.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Book, Men, Artist

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• I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Beautiful, Dollars, Investing

  "Jackie Kennedy Onassis Stuns In A Long Printed Dress (PHOTO)" by Amanda McGowan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2012.

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• The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Horse, History, Political

  Quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys (1984)

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• I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

  Jackie Kennedy

  College, Kind, Newspapers

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• One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Book, Editors, Publishing

  "Publishers Weekly" Magazine, April 19, 1993.

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• Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Jobs, Adventure, World

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• When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Made, Harvard

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• Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

  Jackie Kennedy

  World, Tickets, Reporters

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