Douglas Brinkley Quotes
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.
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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
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I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
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Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
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Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.
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Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.
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When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
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Use PMA: Positive Mental Attitude.
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I want to see genuine talent rewarded.
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I'm undisputed and there's no disputing that.
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Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks, which, as a wealthy woman, she could pay others to do.
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There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'
