Bob Woodward Quotes
There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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Those who perpetrate fraud against our financial institutions will be met with the full force of law enforcement.
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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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You need to talk like your boss and copy their actions. Like, if they cross their legs, you do the same. If people think you're like them, you're more inclined to get what you want out of them.
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Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.
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There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
