Douglas Brinkley Quotes
The very fact that Barack Obama - an African-American - was twice elected to the presidency will always be the lead line in that hard-to-meld, gold-plated paragraph.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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We always trend set.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
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For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being.
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I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
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I have a couture body.
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I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.
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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
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I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.
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Be able to see people's humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you're reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized.
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The very fact that Barack Obama - an African-American - was twice elected to the presidency will always be the lead line in that hard-to-meld, gold-plated paragraph.
