David Brinkley Quotes
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
Canelo Alvarez
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As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.
Vincent Bugliosi
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Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.
Sam Altman
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
Felicity Jones
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I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
Kate Winslet
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The world wants to like America.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
Malala Yousafzai
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
Edmund Waller
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I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.
Nathan Fillion
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I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.
Gail Collins
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Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
Ian Somerhalder
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It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.
Daley Thompson
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
Oscar Wilde
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When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
E. Stanley Jones
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My music is jazz.
Yusef Lateef
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The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.
Gautam Gambhir
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I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.
Jim Varney
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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Carl T. Rowan
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Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.
John Hickenlooper
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I think you have to sort of accept that nobody really knows where it`s going so there has to be a lot of impulsive kind of attitudes. So it`s like a train that`s moving and you don`t quite know where it`s going but you try to steer it in the best way you can realizing that it may go in different places that you had no idea.
Lars Ulrich Metallica
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That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
David Brinkley