Our time Quote by Maureen Dowd Download Open image “Celebrity is the religion of our time.” — Maureen Dowd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Our time Religion Time
“I would call celebrity worship a new form of religious culture, fans may not even know the fallen celebrit[ies], yet they draw quite a… — J.D. Reed Copy Share Image
Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
I wouldn't consider myself a so-called 'celebrity.' Arrrgh, for the love of God! — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now. — Willie Aames Copy Share Image
To be considered a celebrity, there's a certain lifestyle that comes with that. — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
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… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the stuff that's… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“Who knows? If women all end up with the same face and body, men may gravitate toward the quirky. Then the chicks with the… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
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… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“Materialism has defeated feminism as well. In a sign of the times, Gloria Steinem was on the picket line when the first American DeBeers store opened on Fifth Avenue in June 2005, protesting the evictions of Bushmen in Botswana to make room for diamond miners and the charges that the company dealt in "blood diamonds" used to finance civil wars… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share
“Romantic googling can be as dangerous as drunk text messaging. Of course hell hath no fury like a woman who Google-bombs her old flames… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
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,… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share
Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can come across… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted,… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share
President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival. Certainly… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling.… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches talk about having evidence of Divine authority because they have miracles. Miracles in our time are like candles in the street at midday. We do not want miracles. They are to teach men how to find… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure… — Michael Dirda Copy Share
Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time. — Mary Livermore Copy Share Image
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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