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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Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Mark McKinnon
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If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!
Emmylou Harris
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There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.
Matthew Lesko
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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.
Douglas Brinkley