Ben Bradlee Quotes

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.

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• Indian cinema is no more limited to audiences in India. We have viewers all around the world, and hence, understanding the global perspective is a must. Cinema Beyond Boundaries would get the viewers and the filmmakers together and would help us in serving them with good quality cinema.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • World
  • Good
  • Together

• Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Important
  • Change

• I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Party
  • Myself

• The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Time
  • Truth

• Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Me
  • Eye
  • Human

• Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Time
  • Together
  • More

• A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Running
  • Forward
  • Fast

• I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • See
  • First
  • Lady

• Canada is a big part of my life.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Canada

• Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Solution
  • Capacity
  • Middle

• I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • World
  • Truth
  • Help

• Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'

  

  Yaya Han
  • Art
  • Like
  • Artist

• Adrian Clayborn is somebody that relentlessly brings that attitude, energy, and toughness.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Energy
  • Attitude
  • Toughness

• Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Job
  • Career
  • Know

• I last went to a gym when I was a teenager to make sure I could lift ballerinas.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Teenager
  • Gym
  • Last

• I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Football
  • Eye
  • Hollywood

• One of the big myths about philanthropy is that it's all about donating funds for a cause. I like to look at it quite differently. Philanthropy is about 'giving' - not just in monetary terms but also in non-monetary aspects, like time, ideas, or being a volunteer. Donating money is just a small part of philanthropy.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Time
  • Money
  • Giving

• Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.' And I did.

  

  Claudette Colvin
  • Thinking
  • Justice
  • Easy

• I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Work
  • Important
  • Government

• I'm interested in representation that falls outside of what would be socially appropriate, or acceptable, or beautiful. The world is going through a very fundamentalist moment. You have right-wing politics and misogyny and religion employed together everywhere - here in the US, with issues like abortion. Religion is a very fraught and complicated topic, but at the same time, like all grand historical narratives, there is a potential for challenging, or rethinking the kinds of subjectivities that these meta-narratives produce.

  

  Chitra Ganesh
  • World
  • Together
  • Beautiful

• In America we believe that every child, no matter where they live, who their family is, or what the color of their skin, is entitled to as good an education as the richest parent in America can give to their children.

  

  John Edwards
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Live

• It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.

  

  John Henry Patterson
  • Work
  • Know
  • Play

• The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.

  

  Ben Bradlee