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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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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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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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
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Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help.
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I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I didn't give up until about ten days. I don't think I really told my father. I really didn't like my father knowing my things were not successful.
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I don't have that drive to be in this field, climbing up, doing bit parts in movies to make a big movie. But I'm lucky I get to also do acting - it's fun. I should probably just take an acting class on the weekends - that would be enough for me.
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What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that.
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Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.
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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.
