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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To saucy doubts and fears.
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I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
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We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.
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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
