Hoover Quotes

• What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Years, Knows

  "Babe Ruth: The Big Moments of the Big Fellow". p. 139. Book by Tom Meany, 1947.

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• J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Past, Men, Evil

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• The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.

  Will Rogers

  Night, Hands, People

  "And Here's How It All Happened". Syndicated column #518. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933". Book by Steven Gragert, 1982.

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• Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.

  Max Lucado

  Heart, Worry, Joy

  Max Lucado (2012). “Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.

  Tim Vine

  Dust, Collecting, Wells

  "Tim Vine's Hoover joke has been voted the funniest. Can you do better?" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2014.

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• I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

  Paul Muni

  Chinese

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.

  Rexford Tugwell

  Program, Deals, Whole

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• The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover

  Rexford Tugwell

  Maturity, Ideas, Legislation

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• I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film.

  Clint Eastwood

  Rumor, Stories, Film

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". www.moviesonline.ca.

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• There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the head of a studio or the head of an organization, a major newspaper, a major factory or company, of people who stay too long, maybe, and overstay their usefulness.

  Clint Eastwood

  Organization, Long, People

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J. Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the 30s, 40s, and 50s and beyond - but this was all prior to the information age so we didn't know about Hoover except what was usually in the papers, and this was fun, because this was a chance to go into it [ during filming 'J. Edgar Hoover' ]

  Clint Eastwood

  Growing Up, Fun, Age

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J. Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Thinking, Interesting, Long

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2011.

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• [ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character.

  Clint Eastwood

  Character, J Edgar Hoover, Felt

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J. Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• We're interested in complex characters and he's a complex character, [J. Edgar] Hoover. I like these types of dramas. I've made a few of them and I'm also interested in power structures so it just has elements that fascinate me, and the more you learn about Hoover, the more polarizing you realize he is.

  Brian Grazer

  Drama, Character, Elements

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective.

  Clint Eastwood

  Perspective, Political, Over You

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J. Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more so how to have 50 years of experience in the workplace and talk to a young Robert F. Kennedy as if he was some political upstart that didn't know what the hell he was talking about. That was the big challenge [in the J. Edgar Hoover mоvie].

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Moving, Men, Talking

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November, 2011.

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• We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Wanting More, Actors

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2011.

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• It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Smart, Book, Reading

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• They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Blood, Done

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• John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political junkies, got shot in the head for his efforts, murdered in Dallas by some hapless geek named Oswald who worked for either Castro, the mob, Jimmy Hoffa, the CIA, his dominatrix landlady or the odious, degenerate FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. The list is long and crazy - maybe Marilyn Monroe's first husband fired those shots from the grassy knoll. Who knows?

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Husband, Crazy, White

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• The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humorous, Party

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Home

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• There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.

  Bill Ayers

  Real, Lenses, Moments

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock pot of eccentricities. We couldn't even fit all his eccentricities into [ the same named] movie.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Writing, Character, Mean

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understanding the history and reading the books, but understanding what motivated this man was the most fascinating part of the research.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Book, Reading, College

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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