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.
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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.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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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.
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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.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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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.
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I like things simple.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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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.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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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.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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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?'
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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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!
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
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My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
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I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.
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One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.
