Jackie Kennedy Quotes
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You have only one chance to raise your child.
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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.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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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?
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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.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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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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There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.
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The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.
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[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.
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You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.
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You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.
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Love of books is the best of all.
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One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
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Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.
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[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
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I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.
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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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Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.
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I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.
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A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
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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.
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There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
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We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.
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I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.
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History -- its what those bitter old men write.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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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?
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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.
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Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.
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Jackie Kennedy
- Born: July 28, 1929
- Died: May 19, 1994
- Occupation: Former First Lady of the United States
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