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.Douglas Brinkley
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
Ralph Baer -
I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
Rachel McAdams -
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.
V. S. Naipaul -
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.
T. S. Eliot -
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
Samuel E. Morison -
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.
Yuna
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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.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
Vicki Lawrence -
I don't let anything kill my spirit.
Uday Kiran -
Life is not easy in politics.
Viktor Orban -
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.
Kate Hudson -
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.
Ian Fleming
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
Sam Graves -
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust -
When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
Barry Lam -
I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
Gautam Gambhir -
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
Felicity Kendal -
I'm not a materialistic person.
Marat Safin
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Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.
Ken Robinson -
Cut off the head of the snake
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia -
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
Penn Jillette -
I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it.
John McCain -
A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
Boris Yeltsin -
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
Douglas Brinkley