Caroline Kennedy Quotes

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Caroline Kennedy

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : November 27, 1957

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

Caroline Kennedy

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.

Caroline Kennedy

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

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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.

Caroline Kennedy

I've been a Democrat all my life.

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I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

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I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

Caroline Kennedy

There are many ways to serve.

Caroline Kennedy

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

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John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.

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There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

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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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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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I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.

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I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

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Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.

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I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

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Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

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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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