Maureen Dowd Quotes
When you go into a fight saying you're probably going to lose, you're probably going to lose.
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In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
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If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
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It was really fun working with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz on set.
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There are no rules when it comes to love.
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'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
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Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.
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But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.
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I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
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Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.
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Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
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You will die - and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything - or cease asking.
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One hundred percent of terrorist attacks on commercial airlines based in America for 20 years have been committed by Muslims. When there is a 100 percent chance, it ceases to be a profile. It's called a 'description of the suspect.'
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You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.
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The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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I think my audience is smart. If there's a way to be entertained and get things out - real things, not stupid moral crap - that's the best.
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Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
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When you go into a fight saying you're probably going to lose, you're probably going to lose.
