Gail Collins Quotes
There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
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I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.
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I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.
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I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is.
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I've always liked SyFy.
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By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.
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I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.
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I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.
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Usually, we find it difficult to control our mind. It seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the wind - blown here and there by external circumstances.
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There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.
