Bob Woodward Quotes
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.
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I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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I've never personally been anorexic.
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Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.
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I'm living the dream.
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No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
