Douglas Brinkley Quotes

Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.

Douglas Brinkley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 14, 1960

Topics

PositiveLeadershipQualityStubborn

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

John Lydon

HurtArroganceComedyDoneNever

I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians.

John Mellencamp

CarePoliticiansAverageGuyYour

Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because changes in the force of the illusion are difficult to predict.

Robert J. Shiller

SeeingIllusionPredictDifficult

The true measure of a leader is what it takes to stop him.

Robert Jeffress

LeaderMeasureStopTrueHimTakes

It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

Ana Gasteyer

WeirdFriendsBeingLikeSomeSNL

There's something frightening that comes with freedom. And there was something very frightening for a lot of slaves once they were free and were going through Reconstruction. It was like, what do you do now? There was nothing set up.

Sterling K. Brown

FreedomFreeYouNowNothingUp

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

Robertson Davies

QualitySaidWayInfluencesWriter

I went to school with a lot of kids whose fathers and mothers were part of the El Paso black history.

Ron Stallworth

HistorySchoolBlackBlack History

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Douglas Horton

GoodChanceStandAttentionYou

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

Christian Slater

FaithYouLeapAlwaysLeap Of Faith

Our battle over the size of the state overlooks a problem that is just as important and that may be easier to muster the collective will to resolve: how effective government is, regardless of its scale.

Chrystia Freeland

GovernmentBattleProblemImportant

I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.

Anson Mount

QualityThinkAmericanHumanityDown

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