Bob Woodward Quotes
It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
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At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
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The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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It was at the beginning of 1934 while working on the emission of these positive electrons that we noticed a fundamental difference between that transmutation and all the others so far produced; all the reactions of nuclear chemistry induced were instantaneous phenomena, explosions.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
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I get star-struck anytime I meet performers that I grew up watching and appreciating. I mean, it's still incredibly surreal to me that I was a kid in San Antonio watching movies and then now I'm working with some of the people that were in those movies. I don't think it'll ever stop being surreal on some level.
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We had meaningful dialogue with Donald Trump.
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It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
