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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Crushed wing. Crying, in a pitch almost too high for Patricia to hear. She looked into the sparrow’s eye, enveloped by a dark stripe, and she saw its fear. Not just fear, but also misery - as if this bird knew it would die
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There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?
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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
