Ben Bradlee Quotes

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

Ben Bradlee

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• New York is my home.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Home
  • New
  • New York

• Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Life
  • Music
  • Feeling

• I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Guy
  • Control
  • Responsibility

• Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • May
  • Foresight
  • Undoubtedly

• About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • School
  • Game

• I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Change
  • College
  • Perception

• 'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Shine

• To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • History

• I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Song

• It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

  

  Anna Julia Cooper
  • World
  • Black
  • Red

• To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

  

  Eli Pariser
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

  

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Death

• We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was invented in 1920, and here we, 100 years later, it is only now becoming an actual thing. So it doesn't surprise me that new ideas are met with a lot of questions.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Car

• One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Ambition

• If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Night
  • Golf

• The real issue is, are you available to the folks you represent? And I am.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Real

• I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn't the announcer warm up?

  

  Chick Hearn
  • Up
  • Why
  • Game

• I think it's important to watch out for our environment and to be careful.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Important
  • Environment

• I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Boat
  • Take
  • Champagne

• For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Time
  • Me
  • First

• There is an instinctive understanding that the cultural, social and political development of a nation is a dynamic process which has to be given purpose and direction by drawing on tradition as well as by experiment, innovation and a willingness to evaluate both old and new ideas objectively.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Political
  • Purpose
  • Understanding

• Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

  

  William Blake
  • Wind
  • Vain
  • Atoms

• The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

  

  Ben Bradlee
  • Champagne