Robert Draper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.
-- Robert Draper

#Rejection #Grind #Building
I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians.
-- Robert Draper

#Writing #Thinking #Years
I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.
-- Robert Draper

#Thinking #Grudge #Persons
Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.
-- Robert Draper

#Government #Faces #Roles
Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.
-- Robert Draper

#Father #Office #Oval
Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.
-- Robert Draper

#Tvs #Watches #Newspapers
It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.
-- Robert Draper

#Writing #Numbers #Narrative
I think there's an underlying insecurity to Bush with a rather classical genesis - namely his being the eldest son of a famous father. I think this has propelled his need to be distinctive, to do big things.
-- Robert Draper

#Father #Son #Thinking

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.
Some of ya'll SAY you be grinding but...you don't really know how to GRIND!!
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.
Thus I grind to conclusion.
Illegitimis non carborundum. Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.
The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.
All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.
To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.

Robert Draper famous quotes

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