Gail Collins Quotes
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.Gail Collins
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
Walt Handelsman -
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
Carlisle Floyd -
People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
Kate Morton -
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
Walter Kohn -
I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
Larry Wilmore -
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
Harry Carey, Jr. -
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
Samuel E. Morison -
It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
Pankaj Mishra -
I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
Olivia Wilde -
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Maimonides -
My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
Gary Allan
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
Larry Hagman -
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz -
What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
Beck -
I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
Vince McMahon -
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
P. J. O'Rourke
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As FIFA leaked information to the media, portraying me as an unethical person, I felt I was left naked, helpless to defend myself, as they repeatedly cut me with a sharp knife.
Chung Mong-joon -
I starred in Dr. Pepper commercials and Buick ads.
Joe Piscopo -
I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.
Simone de Beauvoir -
There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.
Jeremy Lin -
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
Gail Collins