Douglas Brinkley Quotes
Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.Douglas Brinkley
Quotes to Explore
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza -
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
Octavio Paz -
A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
Salman Rushdie -
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
Ira Glass -
I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
Pat Metheny -
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
Natan Sharansky
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
Candice Swanepoel -
When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
Karin Slaughter -
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
Vikram Seth -
It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.
Lara Stone -
Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.
Gavin Andresen -
You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
Haile Gebrselassie
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'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
J Mascis -
You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.
Octavia Spencer -
I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.
Yi So-Yeon -
Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
Kate Winslet -
Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.
Jackson Browne -
I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.
John McCain -
There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. Lucas -
I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer and it may never come again.
William Daniels -
An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
Alberto Salazar -
People like to watch surfing, but maybe the girls get the wrong kind of promotion and the wrong kind of press. I might be called a feminist for saying it, but it's like the girls are promoted sexually rather than what they're achieving.
Jessica Fox -
Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.
Douglas Brinkley