Gail Collins Quotes
I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.
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People always let me know when their team beats the Canucks.
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The people of Kentucky have had enough. They have had enough of bailouts for Wall Street banks.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
