Ben Bradlee Quotes
Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault.
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When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
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You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.
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Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
