Alan Brinkley Quotes
It should not be in the book for titillating purposes or settling scores. It should be in the book because of its significance to our recent history.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.
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With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.
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Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.
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If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.
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The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities of the people through whose instrumentality and for whose benefit it was formed.
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There have been actresses who transitioned and nobody knew. But for me, with everybody knowing my history, it will be harder. I'm sure there are some great scripts calling for an ultra-glamorous woman. And I'm prepared to be ultra-glamorous.
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you'll have that chance and, if we didn't do Italian Job together, there wouldn't be another one that could be right.
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The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
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Entertainment is such a non-reality.
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It should not be in the book for titillating purposes or settling scores. It should be in the book because of its significance to our recent history.
