Douglas Brinkley Quotes
John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
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As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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When you are playing great, it's wonderful. Because you and your partner just want to go out and go (rubbing hands together) 'Who we got?' and off you go. But when you're playing badly, or your trust is dented, or your self-belief is gone, it's the worst (freaking) week in the world!
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John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.
