Maureen Dowd Quotes
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
-
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.
-
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
-
I was a tomboy.
-
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.
-
You're either ghetto or you're not.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
-
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
-
I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
-
I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
-
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
-
Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
-
There was the 'Cosby Show' in America in the 1980s, which was a doctor in a beautiful Brownstone middle-class house. We just haven't created a role like that in the U.K.; it's always gangs and crime. We need to be brave.
-
I really want people to know that I am a normal girl. I'm not a superhero now. I'm not some sort of celebrity that doesn't have feelings. I'm very, very normal.
-
I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.
-
A room is not a room without natural light.
-
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
