Robert Caro Quotes

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

Robert Caro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 30, 1935

Topics

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Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

John Ortberg

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There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don't. Personal attacks on me? I think I'm just so used to it.

Angelina Jolie

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We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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No matter what you may think about her politics or her record, Hillary Clinton understands that this is not reality television; this is reality. She understands the job of president. It involves finding solutions, not pointing fingers; and offering hope, not stoking fear.

Michael Bloomberg

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Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.

John Sandford

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My mom was a model, and her laid-back but put-together sensibility really rubbed off on me.

Tony Parker

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We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

Robert Byrd

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Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

Michael Reagan

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I know what I'm capable of, and I try to go out and prove that.

Draymond Green

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Chauncey Depew

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Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

Bob Monkhouse

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'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.

Susan Orlean

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