Carl Bernstein Quotes

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

Carl Bernstein

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• Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• For me, what's crazy is CRM has really evolved, and keeps evolving.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Really

• If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Good
  • Great
  • Best

• Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • May
  • Book
  • Society

• Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Me
  • Doing
  • Page

• I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Change

• I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Important
  • Children
  • Day

• Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Other
  • Aspire
  • Pinnacle

• In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Kids
  • Broken
  • Same

• One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Find

• We live in a world of replicas, and I try desperately in a world of replicas to produce things that are not replicas of anything.

  

  Carl Andre
  • World
  • Live

• Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Wish

• Sea of upturned faces.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Sea

• He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Respect
  • Stupid

• I would love to work with Salman. We have a great tuning so if we work together, it will be great fun. But till the time we don't get a good script, a script that excites both of us, we can't work together.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• It's everyone's destiny to be glooped at some point in their life.

  

  Anthony Head
  • Life
  • Destiny

• We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us...

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Time

• It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Science
  • Easy
  • Lovers

• If I get to the end of my life, and people say, 'He was in 'Cold Feet,' well, I was, and it was great. I thought the fourth series wasn't great. I thought there were weak episodes throughout. Overall, I thought it was a good show, it had an impact, it dealt with a lot of issues, and it was a great part.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Home
  • Fight
  • Block

• You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Fear

• Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

  

  Pindar
  • Great
  • Men
  • Wise

• The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

  

  Carl Bernstein