Gail Collins Quotes
Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
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There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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I like being different people.
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From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I'd hang out in magic shops.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.
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At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
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Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
