Gail Collins Quotes
Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.
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At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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Life is like an analogy.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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I am a journalist.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
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There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.
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More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.
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Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.
