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.Alan Brinkley
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
Wanda Sykes -
I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
Felicia Day -
No one should be left to suffer alone.
Daisaku Ikeda -
NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
Hanna Rosin -
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.
Gail Collins -
In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
Bao Dai
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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.
Karen Traviss -
With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.
Daniel Bryan -
Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
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.
Oliver North -
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
Walter Raleigh -
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.
Fidel Castro
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
Quavo Migos -
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
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.
Samuel Freeman Miller -
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.
Candis Cayne -
To all of you who served in Iraq, we saw your heroism in pushing out a dictator whose brutality must be condemned, never praised. In defeating an insurgency. In giving the Iraqi people a chance. And no matter what has happened since, your valor in the deserts, in fierce urban combat, will be honored in the annals of military history.
Barack Obama -
All those events in history were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
Marcus Aurelius
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The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.
Joshua Foer -
I do believe that there are creative chakras or different sorts of energy centers.
Mahershala Ali -
What people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first.
Jorge Posada -
I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
T. C. Boyle -
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry -
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.
Alan Brinkley