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If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

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Jackie Kennedy
Age: 64 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 28
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
First Lady
Journalist
Literary Editor
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Politician
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Town of Southampton
Jacqueline Kennedy
Jackie Onassis
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
Jacqueline Bouvier
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
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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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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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There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
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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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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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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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One should always dress like a marble column.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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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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Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
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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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When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
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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 think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.
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