Charles Ruff Quotes

Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's nonsense.

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• Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.

  

  Manju Warrier
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• I'm kind of a private person.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
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• I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.

  

  Jackie Cooper
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• I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

  

  Gal Gadot
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• Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.

  

  Ada Lovelace
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• I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.

  

  Dana Brunetti
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• I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.

  

  Warwick Davis
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• The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.

  

  Ira Glass
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• I'm working alongside the White House and other members in the House to lessen the tax burden that currently weighs on so many Oklahomans.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • House

• I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.

  

  Jason Reitman
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• Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?

  

  Dwayne Andreas
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• A well-functioning microfinance bank can actually be a profitable business as well. So it became a perfect proof point that, through business, you can provide an experience that leads to individual self-empowerment.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
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  • Experience
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• Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

  

  Dorothy Leigh Sayers
  • People
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• A good memory is needed after one has lied.

  

  Pierre Corneille
  • Good

• Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

  

  David Malpass
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• I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness.

  

  George Allen
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• I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.

  

  Eric Schmidt
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• This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • America
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• Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

  

  Anne Carson
  • World
  • Dream
  • Nonsense

• As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which I lived. Gradually I began to see a pattern of nonsense in much scientific writing. Scientific explanations given regarding the origins or functioning of various phenomena simply didn't make sense.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • World
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• Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • She

• Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's nonsense.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Nonsense