Carl Bernstein Quotes
The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
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What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
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I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.
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I always wanted to be a great actor.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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If you don't have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist.
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The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
