Maureen Dowd Quotes

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

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• I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Sense
  • Living
  • Lucky

• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Change

• I'm confident, motivated.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Motivated
  • Confident

• I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Every single day I'm shocked.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Single
  • Day
  • Every

• I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Me
  • Period
  • Curiosity

• Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • People
  • World
  • Nice

• Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Question
  • Right
  • Choose

• It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Very
  • Land

• I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Music
  • Meditation
  • Shopping

• There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Time
  • Long
  • Question

• No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Person
  • Miserable
  • Ever

• All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Vision
  • Unique
  • Moment

• In life, there is no such thing as impossible; it's always possible.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Always
  • Impossible

• I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• This would, at a stroke, reduce the rise in prices, increase production and reduce unemployment.

  

  Edward Heath

• A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.

  

  Lauren Hutton

• Small ball, spacing, shooting 3s, is something that everybody's trying to do.

  

  J. B. Bickerstaff
  • Trying
  • Small

• Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Interest

• We now live in a post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no longer dominate social thought and action. The Bible has ceased to be a common base of moral authority for judging whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable.

  

  Harvey Cox
  • Social Institutions
  • Post-Christian' America
  • Judeo-Christian ethic

• I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

  

  Maureen Dowd