Bob Woodward Quotes

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

Bob Woodward

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• Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Work
  • Together
  • Energy

• One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

  

  Hank Haney
  • High
  • You
  • Idea

• We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Up
  • Good
  • Guy

• I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Literature

• Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • World
  • Night
  • Eyes

• Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Past
  • Late
  • Rome

• I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Want
  • Care

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Power
  • End
  • Horse

• Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Security
  • Year
  • Top

• In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • American
  • Innocent

• Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Support
  • Care
  • Show

• Hard work and making the most of life - that's what makes Georgians great.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• When the time is right, I will do female-centric films.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Right
  • Will

• I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story - that's the real appeal - if the story is long you have a better chance of becoming more connected.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Think
  • Control
  • I Think

• The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Mind

• I forget about myself and tend to concentrate too much on others.

  

  Adwoa Aboah

• I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Citizens

• Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Up
  • Different
  • Movie

• The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

  

  Bob Woodward