Gail Collins Quotes

It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.

Gail Collins

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs

WisdomOpportunityGreatYouWhere

It's a liminal thing, humming, And I'm always interested in liminal things.

Max Richter

AlwaysThingsInterestedThing

I never really followed grunge.

Robert Quine

NeverGrungeReallyFollowed

I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth.

Angela Merkel

GrowthMoneyMeToo MuchCrisis

I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.

Angie Stone

JoyPeopleMeFeelTryingKnowing

As for the like of Hillary Clinton, I - you know, I've covered Secretary of State Clinton before. I covered her during her campaign. And she's a very likable and charismatic person once you get the chance to spend any time close to her.

Michael Hastings

TimeChanceYouPersonKnowShe

Matt Leinart's L.A. duplex looks more like a Chuck E. Cheese safe house than a millionaire jock's crash pad. There's the requisite leather couch and flat-screen television, but the rest of the ground floor is bare except for a pile of Nick Jr. DVDs, a high chair, and a SpongeBob SquarePants director's chair.

Stephen Rodrick

RestChairHouseTelevisionCheese

I think that it would be unwise of us not to believe that there is life outside of us, intelligent life. And so I do believe in aliens.

Sia

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If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

Tony Benn

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As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

Louise Slaughter

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Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.

DeMar DeRozan

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For me, I went into 'Drag Race' wanting to further catapult my career, to travel around the world, and perform for all my fans.

Aquaria

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