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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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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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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A mother's pride, a father's joy.
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I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
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I'm always looking for silhouettes that seem 'invisible' to the eye, as in that it's so well-tailored to your body that you won't even notice what you're wearing. It needs to be dramatic in a subtle way.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.
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Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.
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Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'
