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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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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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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If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.
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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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There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco.
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I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.
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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.'
