Douglas Brinkley Quotes

One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.

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• The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Reform
  • Finance
  • Biggest

• I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Flow

• I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
  • Me
  • Talent

• Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Success
  • Small

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Kids
  • You
  • Need

• The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Beginning
  • Attitude
  • Losing

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
  • Love
  • Reading

• People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Personality
  • Smiling

• There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

  

  P. D. James
  • Time
  • God
  • Write

• I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Nature

• All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Want
  • Treat

• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • World
  • Good
  • Reality

• I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • People
  • Girl
  • Hurt

• Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • Work

• I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

  

  Clara Barton
  • May
  • Fear
  • Fight

• There's something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, 'He's just hiding behind the wah.' But that isn't the case. It's just that those frequencies really bring out a lot of aggression in my approach.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • People

• If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • People
  • Fun

• One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • People