Douglas Brinkley Quotes
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
Douglas Brinkley
Quotes to Explore
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.
Rachel Roy
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
Viktor Orban
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In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.
Parker Young
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
J. R. Moehringer
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
Earl Scruggs
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
W. C. Fields
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
Gail Simmons
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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
J. Paul Getty
