"It was accountability that Nixon feared."

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Source : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

Bob Woodward

#Accountability Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Daytime friends and night time lovers, hoping that no one else discovers.”
“What am I hanging around for? But I'm hanging around because it's still fun.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.”
“Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.”

Source : "Sometimes Failure Is Your Best Option". www.businessinsider.com. May 28, 2013.
“I'd love to play Neil Kinnock. Because of my ginger hair, I thought that was a possibility. He's a hero and a villain in most people's eyes, but I'd like to do that, I think I'd be right for it.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.”
“At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.”

Source : Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.63, University of Chicago Press
“Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?â€™ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. â€˜What irony?â€™ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. â€˜That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.”

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