Maureen Dowd Quotes
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
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It ain't over till it's over.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
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If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
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My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.
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Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.
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I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
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It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
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Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.
