Douglas Brinkley Quotes
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.
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At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus. It's the one time in my life where I don't have to shout to be heard.
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Our experience is that it is not terribly difficult to do business in China. But the issue is, how much stability do you have in terms of what you negotiate up front and when you've got your feet and your investments on the ground.
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From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that.
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I like to shock people.
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It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
