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I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.

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David Brooks
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 22
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Even in this nuclear thing, [ Donald Trump] says we should be stronger and expand. What does that mean? So, what is concrete in what he's saying?
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It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.
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Donald Trump tried to set up this debate where it was going to be globalists vs. nationalists, and the Republicans were going to be the nationalists. But, if anything, the Democrats looked more patriotic and more nationalist at the end of these two.
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If Donald Trump wants to fire somebody for not getting Obamacare repealed, he should fire himself.
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As for multimillionaires [in Donald Trump's Administration], a lot of us hope to be a multimillionaire some day. Again, spotty records, but it seems to be not without the range.
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I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.
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I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.
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Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.
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Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq.
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Hillary Clinton is still - she's such a private person.
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Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.
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I have come to think we have to treat Donald Trump's tweets like Snapchat. It's just something that is going to go away. And it flies out of some region of his brain and it goes out into the ether. And usually it's on the realm of media.
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The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.
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I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things you Christians have given us, along with mac and cheese, Bono, croquet and politeness.
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It's part of Donald Trump's psychodynamics to always care about his press coverage intensely. He's more interested in that than anything else.
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[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff about the Russians, but he will be controlling things a little more than he probably did over the last two weeks.
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That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.
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People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.
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The idea that Russia felt emboldened and apparently fearless to go into our election and manipulate our own election process, whether successfully or not, is a sign that they are outside the norms of normal society.
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If we're in some sort of Hobbesian state of nature, where you just want a strong man who has no compassion Donald Trump is going to do a little better. So, we will figure out what game we're playing.
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