Maureen Dowd Quotes
Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do.
Maureen Dowd
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
Harold Pinter
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
Rachel Sklar
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
Frances Wright
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
Victoria Billings
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
Karl Shapiro
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
Gary Carr
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
G. Gordon Liddy
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
Sade Adu
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Rabindranath Tagore
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
Wendelin Van Draanen
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
Gabrielle Aplin
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
Marc Almond
Soft Cell
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
Barbra Streisand
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. Doctorow
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My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
Sabrina Carpenter
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
J. William Fulbright
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
Carli Lloyd
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
Aaron Stanford
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Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.
Alex Newell
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I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.
Tea Leoni
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I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the jazz culture, which I've always been so happy - honored, really - to be a small part of.
Chick Corea
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
Earl Warren
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Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do.
Maureen Dowd
