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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The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
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I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.
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I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.
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Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
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We have a safety meeting before any event. There's also people watching at all times.
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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?
