You don't always have to get an expensive gym membership. The important thing is to keep moving and to make it fun and have variety - it's the spice of life.


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This is definitely one of those areas where it's buyer beware. And, probably more than any other pro...
RICK BRINKLEY
If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
You live your life as a biography and you have chapters and how you handle yourself in time of adver...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
With Nixon, you see the right way to do it and the wrong way to do it.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
My wife and kids were born in New Orleans,
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
a lot of professionals won't come back.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
It's too little too late. He's still going to get the blame.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
(It) was overloaded with people.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
I witnessed him rescuing up to 40 people. He was up to his waist in toxic muck.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
I witnessed him rescuing up to 40 people, ... He was up to his waist in toxic muck.... I'm not going...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan , D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson,
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbo...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
Out of writing all those books, people were looking for Waldo in his prose. His books are ones that ...
DOUG BRINKLEY
I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system
DAVID BRINKLEY
Usually, one day in a century rises above the others as an accepted turning point or historic milest...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings ...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
His lack of prioritizing hurricane evacuation after Ivan, after we dodged a bullet, is criminal. He ...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
His lack of prioritizing hurricane evacuation after Ivan, after we dodged a bullet, is criminal, ......
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
They use [how much] money they've spent as a measure of success because there's very little else to ...
DAVID BRINKLEY
People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are ha...
DAVID BRINKLEY
If I were objective or if you were objective or if anyone was, he would have to be put away somewher...
DAVID BRINKLEY
He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano.
DAVID BRINKLEY
Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
DAVID BRINKLEY
Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
I think President Bush had a very hard 2005 with his failed efforts on Social Security and the probl...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a w...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
I could ride on an integrated trolley bus on the base, ... but when I left the base, I had to ride h...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
'This child's getting old,' he muttered with stark regularity, an old-timey refrain that mountainmen...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
John Kerry had his back against the wall, and in January turned his campaign completely around.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
George McGovern said Hunter's coverage of the 1972 election was the least factually accurate but the...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
He had half their points in every quarter (in the last meeting). The emphasis was not to stop him, b...
DAN BRINKLEY
We are not going to face a guard as good as Brian Morris. He had 34 points the first game, we wanted...
DAN BRINKLEY
He was the guy who by his heroic actions gave a morality and dignity to the American military effort...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 18...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to tra...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa P...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you&#...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
It was the key to the game. It didn't slow them down. It slowed Jeter down. It kept him on the other...
DAN BRINKLEY
To Armstrong, constantly speaking about 'Apollo 11' only diminished the magic. That's wh...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you wit...
DAVID BRINKLEY
The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
He cared that people understood American history in their homes. His love for America came through i...
DOUG BRINKLEY
Cancer was 'the battle of my life,' he used to say.
DOUG BRINKLEY
Biography tends to tilt history, because every person you are writing about becomes larger than life...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom ...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often th...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY