Douglas Brinkley Quotes
I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.
Douglas Brinkley
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
Karl Jaspers
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
Larry Hagman
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
A. S. Byatt
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
Daniel Cormier
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
Inga Cadranel
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
Yossi Sarid
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
Ian Thorpe
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
Walt Disney
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard
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In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.
Belinda Johnson
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Honestly, I am a shy person.
Blake Lively
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It is a melancholy truth; yet such is the blessed effect of civilization! the most respectable women are the most oppressed; and, unless they have understandings far superiour to the common run of understandings, taking in both sexes, they must, from being treated like contemptible beings, become contemptible.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war.
C. S. Lewis
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I'm 58 years old. I got married for the first time - it's about time, right? Growing up as a gay woman, you just don't ever think about that, and then I thought, about 10 years ago, 'You know, I think within 10 years gay marriage will be legal.' And here we are, 10 years later, making it legal.
Martina Navratilova
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I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.
Douglas Brinkley