Douglas Brinkley Quotes
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
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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.
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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.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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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.
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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.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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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.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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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!
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Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.
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There's a secret sauce in California, and I hope people pay attention to it.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
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Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
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I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.
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Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. When you're thinking of your listener, that's when you start stuttering and it's just because you're nervous that your listener is passing judgment.
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I don't do much. I'm too lazy. That's my problem. Hang around my couch, watching the TV. Just too lazy. I realized this the other day, I get hit my a truck tomorrow - a big truck could hit me - paralyze me from the neck down. Wouldn't effect my lifestyle a bit really.
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
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It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people.
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New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
