Maureen Dowd Quotes

President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.

Maureen Dowd

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I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.

Jimmy Smits

FamilyEducationCollegeMomLiving

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

Jill Davis

WritingBookLovedFirstAbsolutely

Chicago seems to follow New York, and coming from New York and being in real estate, I worry about things happening in Chicago that have happened in New York. I've seen a great city like New York go downhill. It has a wonderful financial downtown, but the rest of the city is not very nice.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.

Melvin Maddocks

NothingMoreDefensiveThan

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Matthew Arnold

LoveCulturePerfectionStudy

It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

Michael Bay

GreatPeopleRelaxWorldSeriously

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

Sidney Blumenthal

HealthMistakesCareStrategyEarly

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Tom Stoppard

GovernmentDemocracyVotingCounting

George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.

Robert Dallek

PathDepressionWarWashington

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

Rod Taylor

ActorSydneyRadioStartedAudition

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Mason Cooley

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People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

Bob Dylan

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