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" The C.E.O. of Google doesn't look like a Dick Cheney World Domination sort whom we should worry about as Google ogles our houses, our oceans, our foibles, our movements and our tastes. "
Maureen Dowd
Houses
Google
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" For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both. "
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Feared
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" 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. "
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Eyes
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" The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No Drama' rule in the White House, you risk keeping reality at bay. Presidencies are always about crisis management. "
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Drama
You
Reality
" As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight. "
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About
Another
Will
" It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes. "
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House
Give
Away
" Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last. "
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Always
You
" 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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Meaning
Information
Hell
" Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans. "
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Want
Protected
Make
" Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories? "
Maureen Dowd
Evil
Search
Society
" I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen. "
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Natural
Journalism
Find
" Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can come across as imperviousness and inflexibility. He wants to run the agenda; he doesn't want the agenda to run him. Once you become president, though, there's no way to predict what your crises will be. "
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Emotions
Now
Run
" I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You know, I love to go to vintage stores, but mostly it's stuff that I don't have anywhere to wear... I don't have the life that goes with the clothes. "
Maureen Dowd
Walk
Vintage
Love
" 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. "
Maureen Dowd
Late
You
Always
" My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad. "
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Years
Know
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" One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. "
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Justify
Nature
Rather
" Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for. "
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Even
Waiting
Person
" If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting pulled up the ladder by other men. "
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Washington
Ladder
Problem
" 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.' "
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Character
America
Blue
" Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do. "
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The Right Thing
People
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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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God
Work
Think
" 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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World
Temperament
Greatness
" When I started as a White House correspondent, there was a lot of criticism from guys saying, 'She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy.' I never understood that argument at all. I just didn't agree with the premise. "
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Criticism
Argument
Enough
" The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House. "
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Live
Tears
Sacrifice
" Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. "
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Democracy
Beautiful
Famous
" The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. "
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Less
Settle
Minute
" The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick. "
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Trail
Guilty
Chance
" When you go into a fight saying you're probably going to lose, you're probably going to lose. "
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Going
Fight
Go
" The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl. "
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Live
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" The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper. "
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