Douglas Brinkley Quotes
Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.
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I have a job that allows me not to look perfect all the time. I can just go looking the way I look, have my hair just any old type of way.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
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Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.
