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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• 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

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

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Always
  • Through
  • Likes

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Reality
  • Stress
  • Touch

• When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • God
  • Stop

• I did some modeling here and there but nothing really big. There was a time when I simply bummed around, waiting for offers.

  

  Coco Martin
  • Time
  • Waiting

• I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

  Elliott Erwitt
  • Long

• The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Art

• I'm pretty prepared for anything. You could shove me out there in any situation - I've done it.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Done
  • Pretty

• All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • World
  • Job
  • Fun

• I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is.

  

  James Durbin Quiet Riot
  • America
  • Beginning

• If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of the United States.

  

  John Roberts
  • Children

• I had the pleasure of meeting our U.K. counterparts at the U.S. and U.K. Transatlantic Aviation Industry Roundtable to discuss aviation security.

  

  Grant Shapps
  • Meet
  • Counterparts
  • United Kingdom

• From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Important
  • Philosophy
  • Issues

• Most people think a song is a song - three minutes, and you're done. I don't think this way. Songs are my wings. They're what I use to fly. It's very important for me to put everything in the right place.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • People
  • Important
  • Done

• 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