Bob Woodward Quotes

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

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• Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• The first step... shall be to lose the way.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Lose
  • Step
  • First Step

• You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Politics

• An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • World
  • American
  • Perfect

• I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Know
  • Romantic

• No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Looks
  • Wrong
  • Sounds

• We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Need
  • Musicians

• It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Speak
  • Actor
  • Rare

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Long
  • Friend

• Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Single
  • Ideas
  • Facts

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Woman
  • Drink
  • Her

• By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Change
  • Grow

• It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Good
  • You
  • Know

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Think
  • Where

• I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.

  

  Debby Ryan
  • School
  • Girl
  • Team

• I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Opportunity
  • Winning

• All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • Life
  • Change
  • Violence

• People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Decision

• VA is a unique national resource that is worth saving, and I am committed to doing just that.

  

  David Shulkin
  • Unique

• The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Couple
  • Unique
  • Rap