Maureen Dowd Quotes

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

Maureen Dowd

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• I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

  

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• The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

  

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• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  

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• I never was a very good singer.

  

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• Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

  

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• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

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• I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

  

  Candy Crowley
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• Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

  

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• IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?

  

  Jack Ma
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• The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

  

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• When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.

  

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• You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.

  

  Earl Scruggs
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• I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

  

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• My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
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• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
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• When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
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• When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.

  

  Becky G
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• The heart is the best reflective thinker.

  

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• O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

  

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• It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

  

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• As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

  

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• Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they're inherently subjective. And that's the danger, and I think as long as we're aware of it and can push back against it, I don't think that these two views are necessarily incompatible.

  

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• The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Political
  • Bored
  • Celebrate