Bob Woodward Quotes
In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as 'dumb, stupid animals to be used' as pawns for foreign policy.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.
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Patriotism ruins history.
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I'm not interested in younger men for the same reason most women aren't interested in younger men; I don't have time to make an extra packed lunch every morning. Please. I'm busy enough already.
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American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.
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In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as 'dumb, stupid animals to be used' as pawns for foreign policy.
