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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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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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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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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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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The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.
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With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.
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I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?
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I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.
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Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.
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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.
