David Brinkley Quotes
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
Quotes to Explore
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.
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The advent of so much dribbling has created a different kind of player, and it starts at a very early age. We have so many gifted ball handlers. Everything is pick-and-roll. Unless he's a catch-and-shoot guy, a player is going to put it on the floor and attack. Kevin Durant is a wonderful ball handler.
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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
