Carl Bernstein Quotes
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
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My first job was as a waitress, and I waitressed for a long, long time. I was a very bad waitress. I didn't care if people had ketchup or if they were allergic to fish. It really didn't bother me either way. I didn't care. I was bad, but it was a good way to make money. And it's a fun job if you are working with fun people.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
