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I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

Caroline Kennedy

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Caroline Kennedy
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: November 27
Author
Diplomat
Journalist
Lawyer
Politician
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Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
Lifelong
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The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.
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I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.
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The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.
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I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.
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I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person.
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Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.
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After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.
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I grew up in New York, I love New York.
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In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.
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Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.
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We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.
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Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
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I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.
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I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president - not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.
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In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.
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The most beautiful people are all in the library.
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I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them.
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In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.
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