David Brinkley Quotes
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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There is no suspense in inevitability.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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I never really caught on in America. I don't have an agent. It's too strange for me.
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I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.
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Restoring a person's ability to achieve success when they leave the prison walls promotes public safety, builds our economy and, most importantly, is the right thing to do.
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The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.
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I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.
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We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.
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My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.
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My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with my mother - whom I really did not know - who had moved to Milwaukee. Something inside myself knew that I was never going to see my grandmother again - I would be wasting my time to live in that space of wanting that.
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I always think back to my high school days and realize all the people who were so popular then are nowhere now and all the people who were steadfast and steady-going are somewhere. So high school doesn't necessarily translate to later in life.
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I loved Charles Addams more than anything. Still love him.
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
