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Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye
Jackie Kennedy
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Jackie Kennedy
Age: 64 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 28
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
First Lady
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Town of Southampton
Jacqueline Kennedy
Jackie Onassis
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
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Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis
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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.
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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.
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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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Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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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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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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You have only one chance to raise your child.
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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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I want to live my life, not record it.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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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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There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.
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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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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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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
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Pearls are always appropriate.
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The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.
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