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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Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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We take death to reach a star
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I think everybody thinks about death, but I’m not afraid of it. That’s one thing about this society – why is death a taboo? When I die I know I’m going back to the earth, I have no illusions about that, I don’t believe in an afterlife – it’s a natural, biological and chemical process to disintegrate back into the earth. If I die and people want to come to a small gathering to mark my life, people can dress and behave however they want. They can play table tennis on my coffin if they want, I’m just a vessel that’s going back to the earth. It’s the cycle of life.
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Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.
