Maureen Dowd Quotes
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I was a tomboy.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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Brigitte Bardot is an icon, and her look is timeless. She is seen as one of the most beautiful women of all time. I feel very honored to be compared to her.
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Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
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My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.
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Good friends find pleasure in one another's company. Let us know pleasure in the company of our best Friend, a Friend who can do everything for us, a friend who loves us beyond measure. Here in the Blessed Sacrament we can talk to him straight from the heart. We can open our souls to him, tell him what we need, beg him for powerful graces. We are perfectly free to approach the King of the universe with full confidence and without fear.
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Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
