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Richard Ben Cramer Quotes
Richard Ben Cramer Quotes
Richard Ben Cramer
American
Journalist
Born:
Jun 12
,
1950
Died:
Jan 7
,
2013
Good
Just
Know
Life
Think
You
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The first time I met Alex Rodriguez, he was in the fight of his life. He was the guy who was supposed to have everything - good looks, good health, good habits - all the talent in the world and most of the money.
Richard Ben Cramer
Life
Time
Health
Good
Good Health
Fight
World
Money
First
Met
Good Looks
Everything
Guy
Habits
He
Talent
Supposed
Most
Looks
First Time
His
Rodriguez
Who
Good Habits
Alex
Few men try for best ever, and Ted Williams is one of those.
Richard Ben Cramer
Best
Try
Men
Few
Those
Williams
Few Men
Ever
Ted
Ted Williams
At some point... Israel ground away, or gave away, her birthright of loyalty from the West.
Richard Ben Cramer
Loyalty
Gave
Birthright
Some
Point
Israel
West
Ground
Away
Her
When there are fewer and fewer publishers of scale, it's just not good for authors.
Richard Ben Cramer
Good
Scale
Authors
Fewer
Just
Publishers
At every step in his life, DiMaggio was what New Yorkers wanted in a hero.
Richard Ben Cramer
Life
Hero
Every
Every Step
Step
New
His
Wanted
New Yorkers
When you're working on a project that's going to take six years, you're weird from the jump.
Richard Ben Cramer
You
Project
Take
Weird
Years
Jump
Going
Six
Working
I had every stress-related illness you can get.
Richard Ben Cramer
You
Every
Had
Get
Illness
You can say you're going to take a vacation, and you can even take the time, but you might as well not, because the book is still sitting in your head.
Richard Ben Cramer
Time
You
Book
Say
Take
Head
Well
Because
Still
Sitting
Going
Might
Your
Even
Vacation
People feel overloaded, that politics has become kind of a public utility: hot- and cold-running politics any time of the day or night.
Richard Ben Cramer
Politics
Time
Day
People
Become
Kind
Hot
Feel
Overloaded
Any
Public
Utility
Night
The whole point of Israel was to create a place where Jews could live the best life - and liveliest - in accordance with their values.
Richard Ben Cramer
Life
Best
Values
Live
Jews
Point
Could
Israel
Accordance
Where
Place
Create
Whole
Losing the presidency is not like losing any other office. More than any other office, it's a vote about you as a whole human being.
Richard Ben Cramer
You
Vote
Human Being
Losing
Other
Presidency
About
More
Like
Than
Office
Any
Human
Being
Whole
After the presidency, there's nowhere else to go in politics.
Richard Ben Cramer
Politics
Presidency
Else
Go
After
Nowhere
When your friend causes you trouble, a president gets rid of those friends.
Richard Ben Cramer
You
Trouble
President
Those
Causes
Friend
Friends
Gets
Your
Rid
There is not often much policy discussion with the Bushes. There isn't much introspection. Several generations of Bush men could pass by in which the great questions of humankind will go undiscussed.
Richard Ben Cramer
Great
Will
Men
Several
Introspection
Could
Generations
Policy
Pass
Go
Questions
Discussion
Often
Which
Bush
Bushes
Much
Humankind
People think of DiMaggio as the exemplar of a 'golden age,' and in some ways, he was. But in the most fundamental ways, he was really the first modern athletic superstar because, number one, he ushered in the era of big money; and number two, he never did anything except that - he never really took another job in another industry.
Richard Ben Cramer
Age
People
Money
Job
First
Big
Think
Took
Ways
Athletic
Some
Superstar
Except
Never
He
Most
Industry
Another
Because
Era
Big Money
Did
Modern
Golden
Golden Age
Anything
Really
Fundamental
Number
Two
Don't be the schmuck on the other side of the table. Don't get an interview with the guy. Be in the room with him while he's being interviewed by someone else.
Richard Ben Cramer
Other
Else
Side
Interview
Table
Someone
Guy
Schmuck
He
Him
Get
Being
While
Room
I'm enough of a patriot to think that the American public makes good choices.
Richard Ben Cramer
Good
Think
Enough
Makes
American
Patriot
Public
Choices
American Public
It's very hard to imagine anybody being president when the stuff that's written about them is empty of who they are.
Richard Ben Cramer
President
About
Written
Stuff
Empty
Very
Anybody
Being
Them
Hard
Who
Imagine
TV is set up to be just a shout fest: Is this good for Republicans or bad for Republicans; is this good for Cain or bad for Cain... tell me something that I need to know.
Richard Ben Cramer
Good
Me
Tell
TV
Bad
Something
Know
Up
Just
Republicans
Shout
Need
Set
He's made a business out of being Joe DiMaggio. To remain Joe DiMaggio, you better not have too much known. He's right. The closer you get, the more explosively bad stuff you find.
Richard Ben Cramer
You
Business
Better
Too Much
Made
Too
Out
Bad
Joe
Joe DiMaggio
Find
More
Remain
Bad Stuff
He
Stuff
Known
Get
Closer
Being
Much
Right
It's not fit work for an adult just dragging idols off the shelf. It's too easy.
Richard Ben Cramer
Work
Too
Easy
Adult
Shelf
Idols
Off
Fit
Just
Dragging
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