Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?
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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
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And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.
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What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?
