Robert Draper quotes
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“As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.”
-- Robert DraperSource : "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.
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“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 DraperSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“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 DraperSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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“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 DraperSource : "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.
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“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 DraperSource : "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.
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“Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.”
-- Robert DraperSource : "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.
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“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 DraperSource : "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.
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“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 DraperSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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Source : Abba Solomon Eban (1968). “Forward to peace: text of the address in the twenty-third plenary session of the Gerneral Assembly of the United Nations, Monday, 8 October, 1968”
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“What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.”
Source : KABC-TV Interview, 1983.
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“Some of ya'll SAY you be grinding but...you don't really know how to GRIND!!”
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“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.”
Source : Sinnegedichte no. 3224 (1654) (translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
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“Illegitimis non carborundum. Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
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“All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.”
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“To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.”
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