Gail Collins Quotes
You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
Katee Sackhoff
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
Karin Slaughter
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
Zahi Hawass
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
Jack Germond
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
Dan Pink
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
Quavo Migos
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Edmund Waller
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
Maggie Cheung
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
Ted McGinley
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
Gavin Newsom
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
Warren Buffett
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
Hannah Ware
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
Wadah Khanfar
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
AJ McLean
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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
Sam Worthington
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
Watt Key
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
Yoshihiko Noda
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
Gareth Bale
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The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts.
Otto Bauer
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I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.
Kangana Ranaut
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You talk about Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPhone, and everyone thought it was amazing: you touch it and move the screen.
Dana Brunetti
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You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.
Gail Collins