Douglas Brinkley Quotes
It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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It's never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role. I don't actually mind working out, but it's the diet: I'm half-French, so I love my food, and boiled chicken breast for breakfast is not my idea of a good meal.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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I'm not politically committed at all in the popular sense; that is, to any party. I'm committed to whatever's best for the normal working person. I'm not a great fan of politics.
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I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.
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Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.
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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life.
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It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.
