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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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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I'm not a materialistic person.
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I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.
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I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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Mariacarla Boscono has taught me a lot, and I have been lucky enough to become good friends with so many amazing models.
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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
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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.