Bob Woodward Quotes
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
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Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
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My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
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I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.
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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
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Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.
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My heart is warm with friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
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I'm really getting into acting and TV. 'Sports Illustrated' is a big, iconic brand I'd like to work for, too. But TV and acting is really funny and a bit more exciting than shooting all the time.
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The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
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I felt that it was cool to even get to the point where I was able to audition on the actual 'SNL' stage. Looking back on it, I can't believe that I wasn't more nervous.
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Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
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If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.
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A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
