Bob Woodward Quotes
Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.
Quotes to Explore
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
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Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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Nobody scares me.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
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I'm not a mean comic, I don't want to turn anybody off - I just want to give a point of view or my take on things that everyone can laugh at.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.
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I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.
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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.
