133 Quotes by Douglas Brinkley

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    Here in St. Charles, you can't believe what it was like six months ago, in the sense that to imagine when you're looking at debris, wires down, big oak trees upturned, that this many months later, you'd be able to have this sort of party going on.

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    Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'

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    History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president.

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    Under Bill Ford Jr.'s leadership, there hasn't been one vehicle that's been a real cash cow. Now I think he's made his move, and he is going to be known from now on as Mr. Hybrid. If he is successful, he'll be a historic figure.

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    Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.

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    John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

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    John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.

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