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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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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.
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.
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'Orange Is the New Black' was my home show. I knew the set; I knew everyone there.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be able to stop it.
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I don't know if I was born weird. I think it's just that I was exposed to very strange things from a very early age by my brothers.
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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
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But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.
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They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.
