Emily V. Gordon Quotes

I always tell people, 'Take a class or volunteer.' It really helps you get out of your own little pocket of people you always see and gets you exposed to a new group of people.

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• I read part of it all the way through.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Way
  • Funny
  • Through

• If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Good
  • True

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Artist

• I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Work
  • Money
  • Patience

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Existence

• My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • World
  • Dad
  • Friendly

• A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • She
  • Woman
  • Never

• All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Want
  • Treat

• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Look
  • Forward
  • Sure

• I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Like
  • Being
  • Just

• In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • You
  • Lady

• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Power
  • Night
  • Goal

• When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Money
  • Woman
  • Fame

• I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Real
  • Reflect

• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Art

• Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Freedom
  • Pride

• A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

  

  Umberto Boccioni
  • Work
  • Art
  • May

• It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Better
  • Behavior

• Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.

  

  Lynn Johnston
  • People
  • Bad

• I always tell people, 'Take a class or volunteer.' It really helps you get out of your own little pocket of people you always see and gets you exposed to a new group of people.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • People
  • Volunteer