Bob Woodward Quotes

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

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• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Lies

• About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Water
  • Start
  • Drink

• I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Thought
  • Golf

• Art lies by its own artifice.

  

  Ovid
  • Art
  • Lies
  • Own

• If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • You
  • Me
  • Fire

• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Nature

• Lipgloss is my calling!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Calling

• See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Country
  • Justice
  • See

• I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Myself
  • Sound
  • Detail

• My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Parents

• It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Working

• Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • History
  • Single
  • Religion

• In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Moments
  • Made
  • Quiet

• Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Win
  • Victory

• TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always working out, so I can allow myself to be a bit more naughty!

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Food
  • Working
  • Workout

• The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Journalism

• I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Women
  • Lasts
  • Ease

• Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Loss
  • Gains
  • Raises

• In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance. Probably the reason why that was not the case this time is because Japan is facing an increasingly challenging situation.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • Reason
  • Chance
  • Challenges

• I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

  

  Bob Feller
  • People
  • World
  • War

• Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the US hadn't gotten involved in World War II?", you can become enthralled by the imaginary possibilities.

  

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld
  • History
  • Wonder
  • High School

• After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • War
  • History