Douglas Brinkley Quotes
Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn't have.
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If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.
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To think with fear of the end of one's life is pretty general with human beings. It is one of the means nature uses to conserve the life of the species. Approached rationally that fear is the most unjustified of all fears, for there is no risk of any accidents to one who is dead or not yet born. In short, the fear is stupid but it cannot be helped.
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Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.
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Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
