Douglas Brinkley Quotes
Administration policies seem to tacitly encourage those who live below sea level in New Orleans to relocate permanently, to leave the dangerous water's edge for more prosperous inland cities such as Shreveport or Baton Rouge.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.
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I love London; I could totally live here, actually. I'm in New York most of the time, and it really reminds me a lot of New York.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
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New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
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Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
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When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!
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Between the three, Facebook is literally everyone I've ever shaken hands with at a conference or kissed on the cheek at Easter. Twitter seems to be everyone I am entertained by or I wish to meet some day. Foursquare seems to be everyone I run into on a regular basis. All three of those social graphs are powerful in their own.
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The notion of a writer sitting in a library doing research isn't what I want. The research I love doing isn't found in a book. It's what it feels like to rappel down the side of a building; to train with a SWAT team; to hold a human brain in your hands; or to dive for pirate treasure. Those are things I've done to research my stories.
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For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
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Fiscally I'm very conservative... others say that I'm socially moderate.
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Administration policies seem to tacitly encourage those who live below sea level in New Orleans to relocate permanently, to leave the dangerous water's edge for more prosperous inland cities such as Shreveport or Baton Rouge.
