Gail Collins Quotes

One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.

Gail Collins

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I've done a lot of self-improvement. I'm always working on being a better person.

Joel Madden

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Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

John Grisham

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The math of durability in McCain's life is extraordinary.

John Dickerson

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Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

Jeff Flake

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This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.

John Quincy Adams

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Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son.

Steve Erickson

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I must say that in my early years, I was incredibly aggressive. I was working as hard as I could to build a business, to try to dominate a business. And I probably irritated a lot of people.

Michael Ovitz

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If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

Michael Schudson

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So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.

Dick Van Dyke

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Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

Deborah Cox

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I'm really loud. I can't sing softly.

Chris Young

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Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

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