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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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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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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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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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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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.
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Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.
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Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
