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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I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.
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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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A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.
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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.
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Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
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Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.
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Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
