David Ruffin Quotes
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
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I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
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A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.
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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
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If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.
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I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.
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I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
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My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.
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I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.
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Nadie puede no ir más allá. Y más allá hay un abismo.
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Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.
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I want to be able to be looked back on and know that he was one of the greats in the game.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.
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I never knew that I'd still be doing this so many years later.
