Maureen Dowd Quotes
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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I want the last cheque I write to bounce.
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Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.
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Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before seen. "An island called Spirit Island where everyone but you died of the itching sickness- you were the toughest one, the littlest one, and you survived them all.""You were sent here so you could save the others," she said. "Because you'd had the sickness, you were strong enough to nurse them through it. They did a good thing when they took you in, and you saved them for their good act. Now the circle that began when I found you is complete.
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I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very much part of the world. There's a lot of it, but that's the world they come from. It never is there to distract from the scene or the actors or story.
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F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
