Bob Woodward Quotes
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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?
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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.
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One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
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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.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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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.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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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.
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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.
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Hard work and making the most of life - that's what makes Georgians great.
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When the time is right, I will do female-centric films.
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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.
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I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.
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Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
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I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.
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Country is a very sleeping beast within us,
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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I think it was born out of that grade school fantasy that a lot of nerds like me had, which was 'I could probably get the cute red-headed girl that sits across from me, if only every other boy in the entire school dies.'
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The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
