Bob Woodward Quotes
Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
Quotes to Explore
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
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I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.
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We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels.
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I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
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I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.
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In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.
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There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them.
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Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives.
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Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.
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The smallest bacterium is so much more like people than Stanley Miller’s mixtures of chemicals, because it already has these system properties. So to go from a bacterium to people is less of a step than to go from a mixture of amino acids to that bacterium.
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That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
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Under which head do you class those who are at sea?
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.
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I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.
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The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
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Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
