Ben Bradlee Quotes

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

Ben Bradlee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 26, 1921 - October 21, 2014

Topics

ThinkJust BecauseLazyMoreSure

Some people are more terrorist than others.

John Keegan

PeopleOthersMoreSome PeopleThan

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

Robert Lanza

NatureScienceBeyondProtectFailed

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Stephen Hawking

WomenMysteryComplete

As an adult, I'll give a writer 50 pages. If the book doesn't interest me in 50 pages, I'll say the heck with it - there are just too many other things to read. A child won't give you 50 pages.

Sid Fleischman

ChildMeBookYouSayThings

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

Mike Tyson

CharacterMeSeePatheticSomeSort

I didn't realise I lived in the ghetto until we moved out.

Michael Pena

GhettoOutLivedMovedUntil

Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it.

Luke Evans

TimeYouBigAwareFanMost

I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years.

Jay Kay

LiveMeSongMusiciansFindGo

If the U.S. doesn't have an export credit agency, which is what the Export-Import Bank is, then we can't compete with other countries that do. Every other country in the world that competes in aerospace has an export credit agency.

Dennis Muilenburg

WorldCreditCountryBankCompete

Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.

Doug Harvey

BestBaseballAnythingSawHeEver

We always think of misdirection as, 'Look over here while I do this over here!' And that's not what it is. You can be looking straight at it, and if you're not thinking about it, you won't process it. I find that fascinating.

Apollo Robbins

LookingThinkThinkingProcessLook

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

Asne Seierstad

ChangeBookNothingWriteDifferent

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