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I want to try to make big films that hopefully connect with people.

David Brooks

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David Brooks
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 22
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City of Toronto
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If Donald Trump wants to fire somebody for not getting Obamacare repealed, he should fire himself.
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I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.
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Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.
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When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.
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What's interesting about the Trump administration is how bitterly divided they are in their attitudes towards Putin.
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Every time Kellyanne Conway goes on TV, there's another fight with whoever's interviewing her that particular day.
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We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity.
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The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.
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Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from one moment to the next. We possess multiple selves that are aroused by different circumstances.
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The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.
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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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We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.
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Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.
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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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It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?
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Freedom without structure is its own slavery.
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Israel is a country of six million people. They need the U.S. It used to be bipartisan on Israeli politics. You never messed with that relationship. The fact that [ Benjamin] Netanyahu is willing to do that, I thought would horrify voters more than it turned out it did.
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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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