Ben Bradlee Quotes

They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.

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• When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Basketball

• This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Money
  • Priority

• Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Fear
  • Wife
  • Travel

• The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying to be pretty!' Inherent in that is a lot of misogyny, I think, because the implication is, 'You must work hard to achieve a feminine ideal for which society has nothing but contempt.'

  

  Rae Carson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Trying

• In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.

  

  Xavi
  • Football
  • Win
  • Legacy

• There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Time
  • Money
  • Communist

• Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Soul

• Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • See
  • Nobody
  • Vine

• I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • World
  • Guy
  • Want

• The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Power
  • Fashion
  • Changing

• Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Political
  • Way
  • Explore

• I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Writer
  • Expression
  • French

• Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Yourself
  • Seeing

• 'Orange Is the New Black' was my home show. I knew the set; I knew everyone there.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Home
  • Black
  • Orange

• Kant ... discovered 'the scandal of reason,' that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Help

• It's not enough to be talented. It's not enough to work hard and to study late into the night. You must also become intimately aware of the methods you use to reach your decisions.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Work
  • Night
  • Study

• The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

  

  Christopher Hitchens

• I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

  

  William James
  • Philosophy
  • Philosophical
  • Philosopher

• Girls' Generation was an important and precious time for me.

  

  Jessica Jung
  • Time
  • Important

• I have been trying to get the hang of not being proud but instead turning that into thankfulness. Really whatever we have to be proud about, it is something given to us by the Lord.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Trying
  • Proud
  • Lord

• I'm good at observing people, physical stuff, which leant itself to acting.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • People
  • Good

• ... the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. And since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Way
  • Care

• They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.

  

  Ben Bradlee