Douglas Brinkley Quotes
I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
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I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.
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I talk too much.
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Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
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Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
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I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
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reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
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For how long is it a duty to study the Law? To the day of death.
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Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
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Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.
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I'm not despairing of love at all.
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I think his development has been lightning quick because of his God-given talent. He has great aptitude and he's been able to develop very fast in front of our eyes at every level.
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In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
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I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.
