Gail Collins Quotes
Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.
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I would never talk bad about anybody, even if they have something derogatory to say about me. I'm the bigger person.
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I think Jughead is a pretty trustworthy character - not only a narrator. I think he might be selfish, but he's obviously selfish, and that is comforting to me. I also think he has a really strong moral fiber and a propensity for good, and he tries to cultivate that in other people.
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I think everything I've tried to do, whether or not it's come off that way immediately, is for the greater good. I'll take the jabs I need to in order to help us all in the long run.
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It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
