Dorothy Kilgallen Quotes
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.
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The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.
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The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
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I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.
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I was throwing mostly fastballs and had pretty good location. I was able to keep the ball down and work quickly.
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My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
