Douglas Brinkley Quotes

One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.

Douglas Brinkley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.

Megyn Kelly

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I tell the same stories all the time because I like them!

John McCain

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To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office.

Steve Garvey

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I'd always thought that 'NYPD Blue' really would open those doors. While I think it created a much broader template for cable, I don't think it really did that much for network television.

Steven Bochco

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I wrote a book with my mom and my sister for fun. I had no idea it would be a 'New York Times' bestseller.

Trisha Yearwood

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So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.

Mike Myers

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It was a true honor to have represented my country at my first Paralympic Winter Games and proud to bring home gold and silver medals for the U.S.

Mike Schultz

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Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

Ludwig Erhard

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I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

Donald E. Westlake

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American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.

Chris Hardwick

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A black actor is perfect for 'Kojak.'

Bonnie Hammer

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We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

Arthur Capper

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