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 love working the legislative process.
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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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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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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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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.
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The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.
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Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.
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A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.
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Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.
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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.
