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Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

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Maureen Dowd
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 14
Columnist
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
Maureen Brigid Dowd
Drip
Glow
Contempt
Intelligence
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F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
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Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.
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Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
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If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.
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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.
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Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.
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Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.
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