Douglas Brinkley Quotes

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

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• I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.

  

  Kate Adie
  • World
  • Women
  • Woman

• However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Slavery
  • Scripture

• Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Important
  • Real
  • Know

• I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Believe
  • House

• Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • World
  • Trying
  • Society

• The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Important
  • Marriage
  • Expectation

• I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.

  

  M.I.A.
  • She
  • Truth
  • Freedom

• The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time ... and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few.

  

  Manika
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Football
  • Risk
  • Fire

• Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Life
  • Good
  • Movies

• There is constant talk about the intermarriage crisis: who is a Jew and how we define a Jew. That doesn't go over well with young Jews trying to figure out whether they want to be a part of this thing or not.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Young

• I still try to be a feminist in some tiny way.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Way
  • Try
  • Feminist

• The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Better
  • Stand

• We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Life
  • Better
  • Own

• Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Universe

• My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Life
  • Happy

• There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Work
  • Value

• You practice with wet balls all the time.

  

  Ed Cunningham
  • Practice
  • Balls

• The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.

  

  Bob Barr
  • World
  • Freedom

• I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

  

  Dee Wallace
  • Career
  • Light
  • Bored

• When I was a little girl, the only real form of entertainment I was exposed to was theater, being raised in St. Louis, and I still love theater, and I think sitcoms are similar to that, in there's a live audience, and you know, I definitely like the comedy of it, too. I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing.

  

  Kelly Stables
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• I do think - the metaphor I always use - it's the role of intelligence community to stay down in the engine room and shovel that intelligence coal, and people on the bridge get to decide where to drive the ship and how fast and how to arrange all the deckchairs.

  

  James R. Clapper
  • People
  • Community
  • Bridge

• John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

  

  Douglas Brinkley