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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I don't really care about having more fame than I have.
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It just kills me when these girls look at magazines and wish they could look like that. I try to tell them, 'Nobody looks like that. Everything's airbrushed.'
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The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.
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I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
