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.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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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.

  

  Talulah Riley
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• We always trend set.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

  

  Jack Horner
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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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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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.

  

  Kate Moss
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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.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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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.'

  

  Felicity Jones
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• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• If I wasn't a fighter, I wouldn't be unique.

  

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• Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

  

  Dennis Prager
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• In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every government, and cost $130 million dollars. By 1977, smallpox had disappeared.

  

  Liya Kebede
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• I worked at Mar-a-Lago for Trump, for some parties, and he seemed nice enough - but I don't think he's presidential. I think he's incompetent; I disagree with his policies, and I'm nervous as an American.

  

  Neil Sedaka
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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.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • American
  • Gold