Douglas Brinkley Quotes
The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.
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You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.
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I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.
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I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.
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The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
