David Brinkley Quotes

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  A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

  David Brinkley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

  David Brinkley

  Political, Politics, Journalism

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• Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

  David Brinkley

  Believe, Cities, People

  "Great Political Wit: laughing (almost) all the way to the White House". p. 89. Book by Bob Dole, 2000.

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• She took a leap of faith and
  grew her wings on the way down.

  David Brinkley

  Inspiring, Wings, Leap Of Faith

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• Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don't have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

  David Brinkley

  Laughter, Successful, Men

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• We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense.

  David Brinkley

  Years, Political, Democracy

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• The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

  David Brinkley

  Sarcastic, Business, Sarcasm

  "One Man's America". Book by George F. Will, Chapter 15, Lingerie and Duct Tape (p. 118), 2008.

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• People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

  David Brinkley

  Perspective, People, Facts

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• Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

  David Brinkley

  People, Political, Want

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• Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.

  David Brinkley

  Likes, Messages, Tvs

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• By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.

  David Brinkley

  Years, People, House

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• The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

  David Brinkley

  Television, Way, News

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

  David Brinkley

  Travel, Strong, Home

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• This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

  David Brinkley

  Mean, Moon, Keeping Promises

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• Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

  David Brinkley

  Anchors, Matter, Cameras

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• In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.

  David Brinkley

  Husband, Men, Support

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• In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

  David Brinkley

  Agency, Government, Female

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• I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

  David Brinkley

  School, Very Good, Advertisements

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