Quotes by Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

Firsts

Journalism

Struggle

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

Betray

Lasts

Source

Afghanistan is more than the ‘graveyard of empires.’ It’s the mother of vicious circles.

Circles

Empires

Mother

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

Cost

Protected

Want

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.

Government

Jesus

Thinking

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.’

Blue

Character

Wall

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

Beautiful

Democracy

Giving

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

Writing

Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

Eye

Garden

Volleyball

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.

Cocktail Parties

Party

Talking

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Adrenaline

Annoying

Attention

Beautiful

Believe

Betray

Blow

Blue

Century

Character

Charity

Circles

Cocktail Parties

Contempt

Cost

Country

Dark

Daughter

Democracy

Deserve You

Dinner

Dream

Earth

Eating

Empires

Enough

Evening

Exercise

Eye

Feds

Fighting

Firsts

Forgotten

Form

Funny

Garden

Giving

Glasses

Government

Holocaust

Holy

Ifs

Jeans

Jesus

Journalism

Lasts

Loss

Meals

Men

Might

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Quotes by Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

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

Afghanistan is more than the ‘graveyard of empires.’ It’s the mother of vicious circles.

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

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.

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.’

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

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

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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