Jackie Kennedy Quotes

Jackie Kennedy Biography
Type: First Lady
Born: July 28, 1929
Died: May 19, 1994

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
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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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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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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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I want to live my life, not record it.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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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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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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