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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In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.
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I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
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Here Lucifer the mighty Captive reigns;Proud, 'midst his Woes, and Tyrant in his Chains.
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We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
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I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
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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.
