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“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Funny #Success #Motivational Sports
“The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing â€” or one person â€” at a time.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Silence #Attention #Sound
“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.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Cute #Believe #Kids
“Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Exercise #Might #Lasts
“Tweetin' ain't cheatin'.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Social Media
“As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Writing
“Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Believe #Rumor #Journalism
“A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Lasts #Source #Betray
“If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Enough
“Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Optimism #Attention #Annoying
“[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Struggle #Firsts #Journalism
“Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Mean #Technology #People
“Celebrity is the religion of our time.”
-- Maureen Dowd
“We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Glasses #People #Noses
“If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Wisdom #Sophisticated #Pranks
“Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Cost #Want #Values
“It is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such hunted creatures. Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Trying #Muzzle #Looks
“The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Bored #Political #Insane
“It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Writing #Adrenaline
“My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Years #Salad #Eating
“I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of what's going on. But it's not more fun. If Obama, as he does sometimes already, gets a little snippy with me about something I've written, you're thinking, 'Oh God, the president of the United States is already annoyed with me.'”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Fun #Thinking #Giving
“For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Two #Century #Feds
“And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Jesus #Thinking #Government
“Are women necessary? Not with Ava around”
-- Maureen Dowd
“The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Years #Holocaust #Religion
“The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Ideas #American Exceptionalism #Exceptional
“As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Wall #Character #Blue
“Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Beautiful #Giving #Democracy
“Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Running #Smart #Military
“Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you deserve. Settling becomes a habit and a way of life, but it doesn't have to be. According to Maureen Dowd, "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for”
-- Maureen Dowd

#Want #Way #Settling

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