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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In investing, we intuitively think we should make a number of small bets. A blockbuster strategy is the opposite. It means making fewer huge investments. But it turns out to be safer.
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That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.
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One has no friend who has many friends.
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In Bernie Sanders, I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes while everyone around him insists they see clothes. Whether or not he makes it to the White House, I hope and pray that everyone hears the alarm he is sounding now; it may be the last voice we ever hear.
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I went cage diving in South Africa with Great Whites, and that was fun. Sweden was cool.
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Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'
