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To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and comm...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must ...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

When the thunder rumbles,
Now the age of gold is dead.
When the dreams we've clung to
Tryin...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the ex...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly t...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the c...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energi...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is t...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

"Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with musi...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn . . . as a matter of interd...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the c...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art ...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the compose...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a conte...
CARL BERNSTEIN The players in the promotion business today are, by and large, not in it for the art anymore. It'...
SID BERNSTEIN

What made that fight extraordinary was not just how action-filled it was, but the high level on whic...
AL BERNSTEIN

We wanted to give back and get involved and make a difference in their lives. These are great kids. ...
AL BERNSTEIN

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]
AL BERNSTEIN

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done
AL BERNSTEIN

To the victor belong the responsibilities.
AL BERNSTEIN

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really ...
CARL BERNSTEIN

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught th...
CARL BERNSTEIN

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of governmen...
CARL BERNSTEIN

In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - t...
CARL BERNSTEIN

If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if...
CARL BERNSTEIN

All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously i...
CARL BERNSTEIN

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American his...
CARL BERNSTEIN

John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, dan...
CARL BERNSTEIN

There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very w...
CARL BERNSTEIN

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied envir...
CARL BERNSTEIN

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even ou...
CARL BERNSTEIN

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based ...
CARL BERNSTEIN

The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter ...
CARL BERNSTEIN

The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press...
CARL BERNSTEIN

As the nation divided into Federalists and Republicans, each group called the other the worst name p...
R.B. BERNSTEIN

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
AL BERNSTEIN

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
AL BERNSTEIN

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in whic...
CARL BERNSTEIN

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and...
CARL BERNSTEIN

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: di...
CARL BERNSTEIN

Easy DOESN'T do it.
AL BERNSTEIN

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
AL BERNSTEIN

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
AL BERNSTEIN

The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a con...
CARL BERNSTEIN

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
AL BERNSTEIN

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-cul...
CARL BERNSTEIN

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages ...
AL BERNSTEIN When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact ar...
ELMER BERNSTEIN Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possib...
ANDREW BERNSTEIN I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first...
SID BERNSTEIN

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
AL BERNSTEIN

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a cont...
CARL BERNSTEIN The SEC has made a good-faith effort to solve the problem, but unfortunately [the proposals] cannot ...
ANDREW BERNSTEIN Our group is trying to convince the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) to make its deregistratio...
ANDREW BERNSTEIN The deadline for compliance with very costly internal control reporting regulations is next year and...
ANDREW BERNSTEIN First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.
ANDREW BERNSTEIN The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requi...
ANDREW BERNSTEIN A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
ANDREW BERNSTEIN The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting...
ANDREW BERNSTEIN Adding schools that are very, very good football schools, there's no reason to believe [the ACC] can...
ANDY BERNSTEIN Adding schools that are very, very good football schools, there's no reason to believe (the ACC) can...
ANDY BERNSTEIN Nashville was one of those teams that was really suffering financially under the old system.
ANDY BERNSTEIN Look at the Big East,
ANDY BERNSTEIN One issue is, what are they going to cost and the other is, what is their quality of life going to b...
AMY BERNSTEIN I call them the vanguard of the Baby Boomers. Looking at their experience shows that risk factors li...
AMY BERNSTEIN For some people, meeting a $250 deductible, plus a new monthly premium, early in the year may be tou...
AMY BERNSTEIN A folder is your best friend.
AMY BERNSTEIN People who are dual eligible have the right to switch Part D plans every month without penalty.
AMY BERNSTEIN Things are getting better, but they're not getting better as fast as they used to be. It's not level...
AMY BERNSTEIN They are really at risk because they are starting to have health problems.
AMY BERNSTEIN What happens to this group is very important because it's going to affect every other group.
AMY BERNSTEIN There has never been a new item in Medicare as big as this prescription drug program and its compone...
AMY BERNSTEIN

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
CARL BERNSTEIN

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by th...
CARL BERNSTEIN A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.
ANDREW BERNSTEIN

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
AL BERNSTEIN People have called from all over the country and offered to donate icons.
BOB BERNSTEIN It's part of the branding of the product, and it's been very effective throughout the years.
BOB BERNSTEIN I'm tickled to death that we can do this in Kansas City because it's another attraction for Kansas C...
BOB BERNSTEIN Oh, yeah. I get that. People think I did it for the publicity. As much publicity as I'm getting, I'm...
BOB BERNSTEIN We wanted to put up enough to get somebody talking. What's a bun worth? It's kind of a strange quest...
BOB BERNSTEIN The state system measures growth, while the federal government says if you're not at this status bar...
BOB BERNSTEIN It started out as a fun thing. But it's attracting an awful lot of attention.
BOB BERNSTEIN I've always kind of been a collector.
BOB BERNSTEIN What I can't figure out is why anyone would steal it. They can't sell it on eBay, it's not fit to ea...
BOB BERNSTEIN

We had no idea of his motivations. And even now some of his motivations are unclear.
CARL BERNSTEIN

The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a con...
CARL BERNSTEIN

During the past year, he'd pressed Woodward to tell him the name, arguing that the current editor sh...
CARL BERNSTEIN

the best obtainable version of the truth. It's a simple concept, but difficult to do.
CARL BERNSTEIN

We had very little time -- Bob and Felt in the garage together had very little time to have meetings...
CARL BERNSTEIN

Not on a paper run by a media conglomerate, ... And the public may not react with the same indignati...
CARL BERNSTEIN

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and...
CARL BERNSTEIN I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States, and Ed Sullivan called me first about them bef...
SID BERNSTEIN This leads to a complete misrepresentation of fact. From the public's standpoint, there is an implic...
DONALD BERNSTEIN That's the sixth compromise offer we have made in the last seven days, and the musicians' union has ...
JED BERNSTEIN It's a Big Ten team. Ohio State always had traditionally a great team. This year they're a bit down ...
LENNY BERNSTEIN

better understanding of finding the truth in politics.
CARL BERNSTEIN

Beyond this, I can only give you my personal assurance that our sole motivation in working on 'The F...
CARL BERNSTEIN Many retailers ended up looking more like Scrooge than Santa.
JODIE BERNSTEIN It was a glaring omission. It speaks volumes about what they think about their case.
JERRY BERNSTEIN The last decade has been professionally exhilarating for me and I am so proud of the many things tha...
JED BERNSTEIN

I cannot live without books.
R.B. BERNSTEIN I'm thrilled to be here. It's an honor to be chosen.
ALAN BERNSTEIN Their shtick is offering 100 wines by the glass and appealing to women. But if a senior EVP of a For...
ALLEN BERNSTEIN We created this segment, ... Flattery is very nice -- all these other people have come after us. -- ...
ALLEN BERNSTEIN We wanted to make the bar more of a happening place, if you know what I mean,
ALLEN BERNSTEIN

Our news organizations and our reporters should be going after the best obtainable truth, not the se...
CARL BERNSTEIN He has zero criminal record. This is his first interaction with the criminal justice system.
ADAM BERNSTEIN Debra is a very exciting artist. It's an opportunity for us to see someone who is going to be nation...
ADAM BERNSTEIN Being forced to hire people that you don't need to do a job -- it doesn't relate at all to the creat...
JED BERNSTEIN [The virtual orchestras were to be a temporary measure and] a shield, ... because all of Broadway is...
JED BERNSTEIN Broadway now is presented in about 90 cities across the United States, and the touring business seem...
JED BERNSTEIN Unlike books and products that are available everywhere, Broadway isn't distributed that way. Even i...
JED BERNSTEIN The cost of producing both the live show in Times Square and the television broadcast was prohibitiv...
JED BERNSTEIN If you had to buy a ticket to each of these musicals, you'd have to spend $2,000 or something.
JED BERNSTEIN This special concert, performed by some of the superstars from both worlds, will not only highlight ...
JED BERNSTEIN The two-way traffic between New York and Hollywood has been a fact of life since Hollywood was inven...
JED BERNSTEIN You can't buy the visibility and credibility that Oprah's name represents. It's going to be an enorm...
JED BERNSTEIN The job market is slowly tightening. We are wringing out the slack. But we're only six months into a...
JARED BERNSTEIN Nobody was there to watch how I was doing the massage and I had the wrong posture and I wasn't using...
DAVID BERNSTEIN It's definitely out there. There are incompetent and even dishonest immigration lawyers working all ...
MATT BERNSTEIN Clearly, these are not the grandiose architectural wonders one would liken to European cathedrals or...
KEN BERNSTEIN This was such an easy thing to do. You didn't have to go militantly marching in the front lines for ...
BARBARA BERNSTEIN We want to spread awareness to people who aren't already environmental experts. We want to make them...
STEVEN BERNSTEIN We're not going to solve this problem with a patchwork approach at the state level. It's a national ...
JOSH BERNSTEIN Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeles...
JEREMY BERNSTEIN Never speak more clearly than you think
JEREMY BERNSTEIN Companies can bring their own assets in the form of Java code and Web services and stitch those into...
DAVID BERNSTEIN Symbol is a pioneer in wireless technology and we are pleased with today's outcome as it validates o...
AARON BERNSTEIN It's an old trick dressed up in new electronic garb and a sort of cyberspace jargon.
JODIE BERNSTEIN The problem isn't simply that families are facing higher prices, particularly at the pump. It's also...
JARED BERNSTEIN It is truly history in the making that the country music world is coming to New York, and joining wi...
JED BERNSTEIN [T]he number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer...
JEREMY BERNSTEIN Going into the tournament, we recognized the considerable parity of the top four teams in the confer...
LENNY BERNSTEIN They've kept these guys in isolation or solitary confinement, so to speak, for three years. I think ...
STEPHEN BERNSTEIN Understanding the correlation between peer-based education programs and HIV rates will contribute to...
ALAN BERNSTEIN messy, given the significant charges IBM is expected to take.
SANFORD BERNSTEIN At zero there was the flash. The first thing I saw was a yellow-orange fireball . . . . A mushroom-s...
JEREMY BERNSTEIN It's an amazing and diverse team. Fraud fighters from the U.K. to Uruguay, from Korea to Kansas, hav...
JODIE BERNSTEIN We want them to know that the borderless Internet marketplace is not a free zone. Together with our ...
JODIE BERNSTEIN These scams target very vulnerable people. They prey on people who are plagued by poor credit -- peo...
JODIE BERNSTEIN The commission complaint alleges this campaign was used to promote an addictive and dangerous produc...
JODIE BERNSTEIN We hope Americans continue to use the Internet for truthful information, but we also want them to ha...
JODIE BERNSTEIN This campaign was used to promote an addictive and dangerous product to children and adolescents und...
JODIE BERNSTEIN You may be on your way to being a victim.
JODIE BERNSTEIN If someone approaches you on the street or on the subway, and flatters you by saying, 'You've got th...
JODIE BERNSTEIN Internet con artists are bad actors without borders.
JODIE BERNSTEIN This is an entirely new and unexpected discovery. It has allowed us to glimpse the molecular strateg...
BRAD BERNSTEIN It's his night, and it's going to be a great night. This (victory) only adds to it for him, I'm sure...
BRANDON BERNSTEIN My dad told me that there are times in this business when it seems like nothing is going to ever go ...
BRANDON BERNSTEIN I think I just did. It'll be nice to go to the ceremony and have this win in our pocket.
BRANDON BERNSTEIN No matter how you slice it, Florida is well represented on both lists.
ROBERT BERNSTEIN So areas that were high and dry even a few centuries ago ... a lot of these settlements are now unde...
DAVID BERNSTEIN It's no secret the level of the oceans is rising, something that's been accelerated by climatic warm...
DAVID BERNSTEIN It presents a major community relations challenge ... How do we effectively engage a community that ...
DAVID BERNSTEIN I dont know that happened.
DAVID BERNSTEIN Will they be bad owners? Will they simply flip this property over to developers? ... One hundred and...
DAVID BERNSTEIN It taints everybody. We think it's regrettable.
DAVID BERNSTEIN We take that basic model and license brands names, in this case Marvel, to create a branded ISP serv...
DAVID BERNSTEIN I don't think we have a solid way to know everything that happens on this front.
DAVID BERNSTEIN This may be more of a political dispute than a dispute about trademark law. Trying to have a special...
DAVID BERNSTEIN Everyone wants to go home but we can't because of the expiration, ... Everyone is reading the paper....
SANFORD BERNSTEIN Since Sirius has a slight disadvantage to XM in the OEM channel, retail channel must be the greater ...
SANFORD BERNSTEIN At a minimum, you're trading off two brands that had been the source of a lot of headaches where ove...
SANFORD BERNSTEIN I think that the company still has a good handle on what its longer-term strategy has to be -- a div...
SANFORD BERNSTEIN It's recognition that the board feels comfortable that he's the right guy for the job, that the comp...
SANFORD BERNSTEIN This is a company that's entering the sweet spot of their restructuring savings, ... I don't think p...
SANFORD BERNSTEIN Consumers have a strong reason to procrastinate, ... There will be more and more deals and bargains,...
SANFORD BERNSTEIN

When we seek to understand liberty, equality, progress, constitutional governance, separation of chu...
R.B. BERNSTEIN

Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hami...
R.B. BERNSTEIN This report may give pause to some of the optimists looking for a stronger second half, ... We need ...
JARED BERNSTEIN From New Zealand to Japan, for many it is a life dream to hike the most famous trail in the world.
DANNY BERNSTEIN No movie or television actor is doing theater for the money. It's about other kinds of satisfaction.
JED BERNSTEIN It was totally unnecessary, ... The only real difference in the remake is that these days, the scree...
MATTHEW BERNSTEIN Between the graham crackers and the warm milk.
RON BERNSTEIN [Finally, there's the bugaboo of any computerization project—-making sure your initial data is co...
MICHAEL BERNSTEIN If you tried to pass Davis-Bacon again, it would never pass -- and Bush wouldn't sign it if it did p...
DAVID BERNSTEIN Do what you know best; if you're a runner, run, if you're a bell, ring
IGNAS BERNSTEIN Alcoa's earnings appears to resemble a biblical scripture because it can be interpreted in many ways...
SANFORD BERNSTEIN You realize you're not going to get a phone call from the CEO to refer a billion-dollar client to yo...
ADAM BERNSTEIN We'll have to wait and see what we get. If it looks like Swiss cheese, we won't be happy.
JERRY BERNSTEIN In a day and age when 43 percent of marriages end in divorce, we need equal rights for non-tradition...
BARBARA BERNSTEIN We don't intend to let a handful of rogues erode consumer confidence in Internet commerce or Interne...
JODIE BERNSTEIN We are extremely happy with our new location. The mayor, other officials, everyone has been extremel...
ALAN BERNSTEIN Danny Cox is a well-known name in Kansas among lovers of blues and jazz. His guitar playing is fluid...
CONSTANCE BERNSTEIN

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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