Douglas Brinkley Quotes

Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a week-long catastrophe. In truth, it's better to view it as an era.

Douglas Brinkley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TruthBetterAmericanViewEra

As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

WorkLoveMarriageHopeRespectJob

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

Amy Tan

PowerWordsAmazingMeMagicYou

Entrepreneurial education in grades K-12, if it exists at all, still focuses on teaching potential entrepreneurs small business entrepreneurship - the equivalent of 'how to run a lemonade stand.'

Steve Blank

EducationBusinessSmallPotential

You can't really fake chemistry: either you have it or you don't, and you can't have a relationship on screen if you don't have one off screen. I love Sarah Paulson. I absolutely adore her. My wife has given me full permission to love Sarah Paulson, and I look forward to doing that for the rest of my life.

Sterling K. Brown

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Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.

Sonia Levitin

ChallengesWritingWorldLearnNew

I'm used to competition.

Rohan Marley

CompetitionUsed

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Mary Douglas

AlonePersonalityI AmLivingShapes

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

Liya Kebede

LiveChildrenChildhoodSchoolMore

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

Christopher Lasch

LivePeopleMostFamiliesNuclear

You really can't function without a phone or an iPad.

Nick Wooster

YouPhoneWithoutFunctioniPad

I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.

Maria Sharapova

LoveAthleteThingsBeingComeAlso

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

Martin Filler

ArtBuildingWillAlwaysImageBeen

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