Gail Collins Quotes

Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

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• I've been married over 50 years of my life.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
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• I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
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• Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Haley Bennett
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• Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

  

  Wayne Rogers
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• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Change
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• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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• Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
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  • Science
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• When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

  

  Victor LaValle
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  • Blessing

• In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Dream
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• Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Struggle
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• I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.

  

  Rain
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• My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.

  

  Pat Barker
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• In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.

  

  Taya Kyle
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  • Moments

• Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.

  

  Larry Dixon
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• Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out there, everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

  

  Adelina Sotnikova
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• When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.

  

  Paula Poundstone
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  • Time
  • Writing

• I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

  

  John Michael Higgins
  • Friends
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• I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

  

  Clement Freud
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

  

  Gail Collins
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