Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman (H. R. Haldeman) Quotes

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman

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• Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• We're not anti-Olympics, we're anti-disruption to the season.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Season

• I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Responsibility
  • Best
  • Find

• It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Parents
  • Faith
  • Religious

• I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• History is a set of lies agreed upon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Lies
  • Agreed

• I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Experience
  • History

• I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Mountains
  • Warm
  • Wood

• I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Man
  • Said
  • Born

• I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Passion
  • Things

• The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Independent
  • Equality
  • Voting

• It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.

  

  Pat Boone
  • True
  • Lifestyle
  • Liberal

• But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Work
  • Men
  • Hands

• I think just drinking juice is too extreme for a diet. Your body needs more than juice, so I think it's a very hard thing to do - very challenging and probably very unhealthy for your body. You can't get everything you need from a juice. I love juice because it can provide you with nutrients - but drink it alongside your diet!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Body
  • Diet

• While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Important
  • Exist

• I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Being

• When I was 13, I read 'Et la paix dans le monde, Docteur?' a physician's account of working with Medecins Sans Fontieres during the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. It was this book that inspired me to work for MSF.

  

  Joanne Liu
  • Work
  • Book
  • Inspired

• As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

  

  Amy Waldman
  • Different

• When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.

  

  Hassan Nasrallah
  • Israel
  • Peace agreement
  • Lebanese government

• I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'

  

  Aby Rosen
  • People
  • Night
  • Interesting

• I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • Time
  • Women
  • Future

• Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

  

  Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman