Carl Bernstein Quotes
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
Quotes to Explore
-
My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
-
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
-
Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
-
I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
-
I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
-
I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.
-
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
-
I never was a very good singer.
-
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
-
I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
-
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
-
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
-
I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
-
I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
-
The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
-
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
-
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
-
Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
-
I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political party.
-
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.
-
We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.
-
I'm still fiercely ambitious.
-
Everyone knew that; everyone was prepared until it happened to them.
-
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
