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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I don't really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don't turn things off. I've found a peace with fragmentation and a harmony with switching gears quickly to other things.
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It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.
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The power of imagination is infinite.
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I've been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/jeff-gutt-quotes
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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
