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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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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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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When they talk about legal status, that's code for second-class status.
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The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.
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At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.
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There's something really interesting about having those close friends that you've had incredible times with but growing up and away from them. The underlying tensions, the shifting in the group dynamic, the little lies you tell to big yourself up: it's something that happens to us all.
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Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.
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All good work is done in defiance of management.
