Gail Collins Quotes
The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.
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I love to be surprised.
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If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.
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I think the main goal of the feminist movement was the status degradation of the full-time homemaker. They really wanted to get all women out of the homes and into the workforce. And again and again, they taught that the only fulfilling lifestyle was to be in the workforce reporting to a boss instead of being in the home reporting to a husband.
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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It's been really hard to watch the news of this Anonymous and LulzSec stuff because most of what they do - defacing Web sites and running denial-of-service attacks - is not serious. It's really just nuisance.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
