Alan Brinkley Quotes

Compression is a tremendous challenge. Five paragraphs on a topic is a lot for all but the most important issues.

Alan Brinkley

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• One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • World
  • Great
  • Stand

• The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Different
  • Think
  • Question

• I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Know
  • Written
  • Arts

• Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Effort
  • Create
  • Class

• I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Cooking
  • Gardening

• I'm mostly vegetarian.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Vegetarian
  • Mostly

• I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Listening

• Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Power
  • Party
  • Office

• Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Always
  • Through
  • Likes

• If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Universe

• Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Winners
  • Losers
  • Employer

• What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Way
  • Feels

• 'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • More
  • Because
  • Brothers

• Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Good
  • You
  • Pressure

• There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Man
  • Greed

• People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Know
  • Public

• I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Believe
  • Star
  • Spiritual

• I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Illusions

• Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Reality
  • Stress
  • Touch

• When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.

  

  Mario Lemieux
  • Sorry

• Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.

  

  Wale
  • Man
  • Style
  • Confidence

• I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Important
  • America
  • Peace

• Compression is a tremendous challenge. Five paragraphs on a topic is a lot for all but the most important issues.

  

  Alan Brinkley
  • Important
  • Issues
  • Tremendous