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
  • Day
  • Single
  • 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

• But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Music
  • Family
  • Friends

• Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.

  

  Azim Premji
  • Trying
  • Value

• Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Children
  • Today
  • Food

• It's almost like Time's Up allowed some really good old-school players to stand up and say, 'We're actually just really normal companies that want to facilitate culture-making. Some of us are even in it for the slow returns.'

  

  Debra Granik
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.

  

  J_K_Bharavi
  • May
  • Words
  • Bitter

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

  

  Maureen Dowd