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Douglas Brinkley Quotes

I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.

Douglas Brinkley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Find Serious Never Out Been Parks

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

Steven Spielberg

Imagination Reality Far Away Possible

I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good.

Good Food Simple Salt Complicated

It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.

Shirley Chisholm

Women Men Opportunities Try System

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

Hero People Villain Think Choose

Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.

Robert Anton Wilson

God Woman Soul Man Create New

Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic that goes through their networks the same, not offering preferential treatment to some websites over others or charging some companies arbitrary fees to reach users.

Service Treat Internet Reach Traffic

I like to believe in the good in people. But we're all going to screw up from time to time. It just happens. It really is how our best growth occurs.

Good Growth Time Best People Up

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

Life Crazy You Find Know Mean

I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.

Business Time People Jealous Friends

Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

Time Control Become Over Things

It's hard for a shortstop to play with a guy you don't know in the middle of the season. If you know a guy early in spring training, you're working with them.

Asdrubal Cabrera

Training Spring You Early Play Know

One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.

Today Great Chef Enough You Say

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