Douglas Brinkley Quotes
Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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The moon's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
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The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
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Space is dark but, of course, when we're on the sun side of the Earth, we're in full illumination and we have all the reflection of the Earth below us, beautiful blue Earth and we're in daylight. Only on the back side, opposite side of the sun, it seems like night to us, too.
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I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.
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The physicist's concept of nothing-the vacuum... began as empty space-the void... turned into a stagnant ether through which all the motions of the Universe swam, vanished in Einstein's hands, then re-emerged in the twentieth-century quantum picture of how Nature works.
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Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'
