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Robert Dallek Quotes

One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: May 16, 1934

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Father Character Myself Me You Nose

When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.

New York College New Now Washington

I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.

Car Myself Beginning Writing Help

I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.

Jennifer Nettles

Love Man Gay Myth Would Glee

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Nature Poetry Earth Dead Never

The weird thing with 'Kismet' is that Vincente Minnelli didn't know what to do with a Cinemascope camera for that film - so he never moved it! It's like in the old days when sound first came in and was so complicated that the camera just sat there. There are hardly any close-ups in 'Kismet,' so everything's at a bit of a distance.

Weird Camera Complicated Know Never

At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

Good You Bad Matter Write Top

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Work Hard Work Success Measure Hard

Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives.

People Rich Everyone Respond Like

Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her laptop in Texas can see photos and cell phone video in real time that a young college student has posted of a rally he's at in Iran.

Rosalind Wiseman

Girl Technology Time College Think

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage Free Nothing Market Which

Donors need to know what their money is being used for.

Michel Martelly

Money Know Need Used Being Donors

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

Michael Schumacher

Believe You Hide Emotions Try Same

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