Douglas Brinkley Quotes

I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

Douglas Brinkley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

Max Schneider

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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Robert South

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I think when someone is so passionate about what they do, sometimes emotions come to the top, and you just get to that boiling point where you have to let it out.

Alyssa Edwards

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I don't read work emails after 7 P.M. or on weekends.

Shonda Rhimes

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Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.

Tom Hodgkinson

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A lot of times, you try and please your biological family, and you can't please them.

Tom Lister, Jr.

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Marriage is a sign of commitment between two people and something I always thought would happen when I was a kid.

Tom Daley

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Lyricism was placed into my head in Ireland.

Roisin Murphy

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I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.

Roy Thomson

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When I was in high school I saw Steven Wright, a brilliant one-liner comedian, and I thought: 'That's what I should do; I should write one-liners.' And I did. My first album is mostly one-liners.

Mike Birbiglia

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If I could be generous and move forward and spread my feelers business-wise and also creatively, that's the best position to put myself in.

Jon Bellion

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My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

Conrad Hall

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