Maureen Dowd Quotes
Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
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When I was in high school in America, I didn't see anyone who looked like me - hardly ever. I just thought that was normal because you don't know any better. So I used to idolize so many other people, like Sarah Michelle Gellar on 'Buffy.'
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I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.
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Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.
