Alan Brinkley Quotes
For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the community and the needs of individuals, between the need for freedom and the need for order.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.
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You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.
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What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.
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Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
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I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.
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I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.
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I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
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I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
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To be honest, I don't care how it went in.
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We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.
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We need to have strong growth, fair growth, sustained growth. We also have to look at how we help families balance the responsibilities at home and the responsibilities at business.
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There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.
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You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.
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Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?
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For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the community and the needs of individuals, between the need for freedom and the need for order.
