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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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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No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
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The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.
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To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
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'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'
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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
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Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
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Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.
