Gail Collins Quotes

I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

Gail Collins

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• New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• My work... is my legacy.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Legacy

• Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Summer
  • Favorite
  • Lake

• Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Writing
  • Tennis
  • Bread

• I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Pretty
  • Point
  • Materials

• For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • Him
  • Object

• You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Hand
  • Fast

• I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Snow
  • Canada

• Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Great
  • Success
  • Interesting

• Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Start
  • Sound
  • Looking

• I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Want
  • Ego

• I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Good
  • Gentleman
  • Southern

• The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

  

  Octavian Paler
  • Fight
  • Down
  • Ghosts

• I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Myself
  • Lucky
  • Taste

• Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Values
  • Terrorism
  • Attack

• I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
  • Humble
  • Listen

• Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

  

  Idi Amin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mistake

• I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Morning
  • Years
  • Chicago

• We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Community
  • Prison
  • Him

• I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Learned
  • Wrong
  • Consequence

• Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Sea
  • Lament
  • Swamps

• It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can be passionate about.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • Life
  • Music
  • Development

• Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.

  

  William H. Douglas
  • Government
  • Individual
  • Development

• I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Development
  • Economic