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.
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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.
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My work... is my legacy.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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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.
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I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.
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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.
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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.
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I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.
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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.
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.
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I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life.
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.
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I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
