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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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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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.
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I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.
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Of course, museums and galleries and art spaces will continue to ground the art world. But certainly the public - as well as artists - also benefit when art is encountered in other everyday situations.
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The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.
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Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.
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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.
