Maureen Dowd Quotes

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

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• The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

  

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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.

  

  Dan Buettner
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• You're either ghetto or you're not.

  

  Vince Staples
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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.

  

  Venus Williams
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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.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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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  Dan Jenkins
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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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
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• Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
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• Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
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• More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Wish
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  • Hank Aaron

• Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Beautiful
  • Giving
  • Democracy