Douglas Brinkley Quotes
Everybody trusted Cronkite because he reminded them of their favorite uncle or trusted family physician. Being square in the age of the Beatles made Cronkite retro cool.
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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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 wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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All rappers are princesses like me.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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Did you see the speed of the ball or not?
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A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
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In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.
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Everybody trusted Cronkite because he reminded them of their favorite uncle or trusted family physician. Being square in the age of the Beatles made Cronkite retro cool.
