Bob Herbert Quotes

I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

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• The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Life
  • Up
  • Country

• I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Chosen
  • Honoured

• I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Hair

• As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.

  

  Adam Green
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Speak

• Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Growth

• I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door.

  

  Donna Douglas
  • People
  • Real
  • May

• Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Stop
  • Rest
  • Highways

• The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Action
  • Paris
  • Donors

• Possibly it wasn't too important for the world to know that we couldn't be bought, but I did want Al Capone and every gangster in the city to realize that there were still a few law enforcement agents who couldn't be swerved from their duty.

  

  Eliot Ness
  • World
  • Important
  • Law

• I'm not making every decision due to my children. But I do hope they never see some movies I'm doing. But I do want to do more family-friendly movies.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Children
  • Family
  • Hope

• Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of ways, he - as a character - was even larger than his presidency. Being able to get to know him well, that firsthand relationship with this large character, I think is what drew me to writing books about presidents.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Writing
  • Character
  • War

• You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Temper
  • Noticed
  • Calmed down

• What change has made the pastures sweet And reached the daisies at my feet, And cloud that wears a golden hem? This lovely world, the hills, the sward-- They all look fresh, as if our Lord But yesterday had finished them.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Change
  • Sweet
  • Pastures

• If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Man
  • Donald Trump
  • Lifeboats

• The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Kind

• Our listening interests are very different from the interests of the Central Valley or East Bay.

  

  Bruce Baum
  • Interests
  • Central Valley
  • East Bay

• Making movies you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Photograph

• I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

  

  Bob Herbert
  • Interests
  • Wealthy
  • Republican Party