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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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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Through long and bitter experience, Rajasinghe had learned never to trust first impressions, but also never to ignore them.
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Fuck ya'll with a sick dick semiautomatic no click click.
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Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.
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I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging you, looking at what you're wearing, and criticizing you - not necessarily in a negative way.
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My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
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Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.
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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.
