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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The world wants to like America.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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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.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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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.
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I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
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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.
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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.
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It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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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.
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My music is jazz.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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Not all of the Islamic State killers are going to die on the battlefield.
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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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.
