Ben Bradlee Quotes
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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How high can bitcoin go? The real question is how low can the dollar go?
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My job as a musician is to fight against alienation.
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I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.
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Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.
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Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.
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I just spent my whole life training and focused on one thing, I really don't even think about after the fact! It's like, oh yeah, I have to do something after!
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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
