Ben Bradlee Quotes
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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Everyone has hiccups in their families.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
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Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.
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I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.
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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
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If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
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White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.
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There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.
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When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.
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If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others, and you will find your answer.
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To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.
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Most of your God concepts deal with a static God, and here is one of your main theological difficulties. The awareness and inner experience of this gestalt constantly changes and grows. There is no static God. When you say, 'This is God,' then God is already something else.
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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
