Ben Bradlee Quotes
The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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The American dream is still to own your home.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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I feel like people believe I'm thinking a different thing than I am because I have this look about me.
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When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
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Hope is a pocket of possibility.
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The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.
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The biggest ever scientific fraud.
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The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.
