Bob Woodward Quotes
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Do I believe it's possible that some young person, young voting actor, or even older voting member for the Emmys, would sit there and go, 'Yeah, that's a great performance, but oooooh, I just hate everything he stands for?' I don't believe that's possible.
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It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.
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There are things that I don't like to talk about directly. There are relationships that I am in and have been in that I've written about in a slightly more abstract way, talking about how it affected me but not so much dealing with the other people involved.
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You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.
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All good work is done in defiance of management.
