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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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
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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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The fashion thing is something I do, and yes, it is definitely also becoming a part of myself and my personality. It also doesn't really feel like a job, either: it's a dream or a passion or something.
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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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I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence of black poverty has actually increased under his leadership. The specific policies advanced by the president and his allies on the left amount to little more than throwing money at the problem and walking away.
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A lot of fights in my life have been avoided through confidence and demeanor, so that's pretty masculine also.
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I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.
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When we got down to the Super Bowl in '85, against the Patriots, we're down there on the field checking things out. This helicopter flies overhead, probably taking pictures, and McMahon just moons it. He mooned the helicopter from the field.
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
