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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
My work... is my legacy.
-
Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
-
Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking 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.
-
Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.
-
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
-
You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
-
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
-
The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
-
I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
-
Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.
-
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.
-
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
-
Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.
-
Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
-
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
-
The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.
-
I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
