Gail Collins Quotes
As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
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For me, 'Bookends' marks the start of my foray into commercial fiction, away from what has always been thought of as more traditional chick lit - single girl in the city trips around in Manolos looking for Mr. Right.
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Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.
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I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.
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It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future creativity by not allowing it to grow and develop through use.
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As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
