Emily V. Gordon Quotes
Don't sacrifice alone time with your spouse just because the kids seem needy. A united front requires adult time alone, so put it in the calendar and make it a priority. A house cannot stand on a shaky foundation.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
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I don't have a goal. I don't limit myself to a goal.
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In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
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I was always looking up to supermodels. They were, like, my superheroes.
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Being classically trained gave me the real foundation for music. It's so important in my life. Why was I influenced by all these styles of music? Because it gave me a sense of freedom. It made me feel like I could put my hand in a colored bag and pull out a different colored candy and have fun with it.
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One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen's claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.
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Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.
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Don't sacrifice alone time with your spouse just because the kids seem needy. A united front requires adult time alone, so put it in the calendar and make it a priority. A house cannot stand on a shaky foundation.
