Maureen Dowd Quotes

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• The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

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  Funny, Success, Motivational Sports

  "How to Be Happy: Why You Should Never Settle for 'Good Enough' in Your Life" by Kristen Houghton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

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  Silence, Sound, Attention

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• Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his iPod full of heavy metal jams and his cute kids. But he's just a fresh face on a Taliban creed - the evermore antediluvian, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-gay conservative core. Amiable in khakis and polo shirts, Ryan is the perfect modern leader to rally medieval Republicans who believe that Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs.

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  Cute, Believe, Kids

  "Just think No" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. August 21, 2012.

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• When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the stuff that's different, that sets you apart from the pack, rather than the stuff that helps you blend in.

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  Different, Needs, Stuff

  "My Deathless Passion" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. July 3, 2010.

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• Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

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  Beautiful, Giving, Democracy

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• Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

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  Exercise, Meals, Might

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• If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.

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  Enough, Ifs

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• Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Way, Forgotten

  Maureen Dowd (2006). “Are Men Necessary When Sexes Collide”

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• Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

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  Optimism, Attention, Annoying

  "Liberties; Colin Powell Rules!". www.nytimes.com. September 17, 1995.

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• When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

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  Writing, Thinking, Black

  "Comics in context #78: summoned to sin city" by Peter Sanderson, www.ign.com. April 1, 2005.

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• Celebrity is the religion of our time.

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  Our Time

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• Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.

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  Mean, Technology, People

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• Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

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  Should, Contempt, Wells

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• Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.

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  Party, Talking, Cocktail Parties

  "Lost in Space" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. April 23, 2013.

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• It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.

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  Men, Sin, Pins

  Maureen Dowd (2005). “Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide”, p.112, Penguin

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• Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

  Maureen Dowd

  Writing

  1995 Advice for political survival in Washington. In the US News and World Report, 9 Jan.

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• Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

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  Cowboy, Evil, Good And Evil

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• A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

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  Lasts, Source, Betray

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• The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.

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  Sex, Party, Fighting

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• President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that had helped cushion the blow of a would-be assassin's bullet.

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  Blow, Presidential, Pockets

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• Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that “demeaning portrayals of women ... dampen the dreams of our daughters.” ... It would have been better to put this language in the platform: “A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.”

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  Dream, Daughter, Loss

  "Yes, She Can" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. August 12, 2008.

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• It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

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  Writing, Adrenaline

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• The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.

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  People, Charity, Earth

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• As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

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  Writing, Knows, Another Woman

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• Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

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  Cost, Want, Protected

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