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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I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.
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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 loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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After what I've been through, I'd rather die than take drugs again.
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We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.
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I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.
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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.
