Maureen Dowd Quotes

President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that had helped cushion the blow of a would-be assassin's bullet.

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• My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

  

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• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

  

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• If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

  

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• It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.

  

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• I feel best when I am modestly dressed. It's a choice I make and am proud of; for me, I don't think I have to show skin to be beautiful.

  

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• My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.

  

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• I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.

  

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• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

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• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

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• Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

  

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• I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
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• My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

  

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• I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

  

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• And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.

  

  Carl Karcher
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• I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.

  

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• To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.

  

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• I like to listen to Beyonce or any type of upbeat music when I am working out. Gospel music always motivates me.

  

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• I enjoy playing for the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to continue to play here and try to win.

  

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• The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

  

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• After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

  

  Etty Hillesum
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• You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.

  

  Bradford Cox
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• President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that had helped cushion the blow of a would-be assassin's bullet.

  

  Maureen Dowd
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