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I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person.

Caroline Kennedy

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Caroline Kennedy
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: November 27
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Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
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Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.
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When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.
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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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As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
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I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.
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To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
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I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.
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Now is the time to move this country forward.
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I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.
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The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
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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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When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.
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It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.
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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 can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.
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One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.
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I have a lifelong devotion to public service.
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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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Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
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I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.
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