J Edgar Hoover Quotes

• Todo mi humor se basa en la destrucción y la desesperación. Si el mundo entero estuviera tranquilo, sin enfermedades ni violencia, yo estaría en la cola del pan, justo detrás de J. Edgar Hoover.

  Lenny Bruce

  Desesperación, Mundo, Enfermedad

  The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen, epigrama (1967)

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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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• John F. KennedyEl presidente de Estados Unidos, que arrebató la Casa Blanca a Richard Nixon en una frenética campaña que convirtió a toda una generación de jóvenes estadounidenses en adictos a la política, recibió un tiro en la cabeza por sus esfuerzos, asesinado en Dallas por un desventurado friki llamado Oswald que trabajaba para Castro, la mafia, Jimmy Hoffa, la CIA, su casera dominatrix o el odioso y degenerado jefe del FBI J. Edgar Hoover. La lista es larga y disparatada: tal vez el primer marido de Marilyn Monroe disparó desde el montículo de hierba. ¿Quién sabe?

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Marido, Loco, Blanco

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• Es interesante en estos tiempos hacer una película sobre espionaje político y escuchas telefónicas. No creo que ese tipo de secretos que J. Edgar Hoover pudo obtener y guardar durante tanto tiempo fueran posibles en el mundo actual, con Internet y WikiLeaks.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Thinking, Interesting, Long

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

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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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• If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start reading about him, the books contradict each other constantly. I was often left with very little sense of the man personally. I had a sense of what he did and didn't do and what people disagreed about whether he did this or didn't do this or that, but I was like, "Why? Why was he doing all of this?" That was my big question.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Powerful, Reading, Book

  Fuente: collider.com

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• They [FBI] had a lot of clippings, a lot of articles I'd written. And to me the - the funniest one was - I had done a piece for Playboy about J. Edgar Hoover.

  Nat Hentoff

  Done, Pieces, Playboy

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

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• I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly to Hoover - that - the director should see this - `And, besides, Hentoff is a lousy writer.' And I thought that went a bit far.

  Nat Hentoff

  Directors, Agents, Fields

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

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• If Congress is going to investigate baseball players about whether or not they told the truth, how can we justify giving the most powerful intelligence official, [James] Clapper, a pass? This is how J. Edgar Hoover ended up in charge of the FBI forever.

  Edward Snowden

  Baseball, Powerful, Player

  Entrevista con Katrina vanden Heuvel y Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. 28 de octubre de 2014.

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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

  Fuente: thepointmag.com

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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, Entrevista a Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar". Entrevista en MoviesOnline, www.moviesonline.ca.

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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

  Escritura, Carácter, Significado

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Hay tantos paralelismos en la sociedad actual [con la época de J. Edgar Hoover ] que se pueden utilizar, ya sea el director de un estudio o el director de una organización, un periódico importante, una fábrica o empresa importante, de personas que permanecen demasiado tiempo, tal vez, y sobrepasan su utilidad.

  Clint Eastwood

  Organización, Largo, Personas

  "Clint Eastwood, Entrevista a Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar". Entrevista en MoviesOnline, www.moviesonline.ca.

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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, Hoover, Felt

  "Clint Eastwood, Entrevista a Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar". Entrevista en MoviesOnline, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Además, la información que acababa de salir a la luz sobre la vigilancia electrónica del Dr. King por parte de J. Edgar Hoover dio más peso a las declaraciones de las personas que alegaban la implicación del FBI.

  Louis Stokes

  Kings, Drs, Weight

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• I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America.

  Tim Lee

  Morning, America, Wake Up

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• I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.

  Don Imus

  Thinking, Tunes, Dresses

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• Ya sabes, en los años 50 y 60, cuando J. Edgar Hoover estaba haciendo del FBI la organización respetada que solía ser, a menudo encontraban a un fugitivo y básicamente tenían su casa rodeada, y luego sacaban un comunicado de prensa diciendo que estaba en la lista de los 10 más buscados. Y 10 minutos más tarde, sería arrestado.

  Howie Carr

  Organización, Casa, Top 10

  "The Last Word" con Lawrence O'Donnell, www.nbcnews.com. 23 de junio de 2011.

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• By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover absolute job security, as well as the potential power to derail Kennedy's re-election had he survived assassination.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Jobs, Sex, Directors

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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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• El reto para mí no era sólo el trabajo protésico y cómo moverme como lo haría un hombre mayor, sino más bien cómo tener 50 años de experiencia en el lugar de trabajo y hablar con un joven Robert F. Kennedy como si fuera un advenedizo político que no sabía de qué demonios estaba hablando. Ese fue el gran reto [en el mоvie de J. Edgar Hoover].

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Moverse, Hombres, Hablar

  "Clint Eastwood, Entrevista a Leonardo DiCaprio, J Edgar". Entrevista MoviesOnline, www.moviesonline.ca. Noviembre de 2011.

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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, Entrevista a Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar". Entrevista en MoviesOnline, 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

  Fuente: www.moviesonline.ca

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• J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

  Edward Abbey

  Parnell, Shitheads, Initials

  Edward Abbey (2015). "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness", p.22, RosettaBooks.

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