Maureen Dowd Quotes
Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
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Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.
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I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.
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If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.
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I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Facebook is my life.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?
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What's so wrong with feeling sorry for myself? Better that than trying to get other people to feel sorry for me.
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Next he will be foxtrotting down to the Tory party's fundraising ball, auctioning City internships for the children of the highest bidder. Is that not the Government's idea of social mobility?
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Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
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The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.
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Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.
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I can travel anywhere in the world and I can pretty much fit in.
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
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I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up.
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Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.
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I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,' all the moaning and the whingeing. I'm not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He's the one who made so much possible.
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The spooky ether was persistent. It took an Einstein to remove it from the Universe. ...Gradually, over the last twenty years, the vacuum has turned out to be more unusual, more fluid, less empty, and less intangible than even Einstein could have imagined. Its presence is felt on the very smallest and largest dimensions over which the forces of Nature act.
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'Nothin'g sa'ys q'uality fantas'y l'ike misuse'd apos'tro'phes.'
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There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!
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Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.