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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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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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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Suffering an apparent attack of arrogance and ego. He is no longer willing to acknowledge the contributions of his former partners...
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The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks from 143 Million dollars in 1913 to 45 Billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the Federal Reserve banks.
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Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.
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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
