Emily V. Gordon Quotes
Experiences don't make us damaged goods; it's what we do with those experiences that matters.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.
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When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.
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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.
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All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.
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I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.
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My life is a series of things that just happen.
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
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My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.
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If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
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We've had such thorough training, we've had an excellent team on the ground. With the minor glitches that have occurred, we've been able to take care of them. And the teams on the ground are getting tons of incredible data.
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You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
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Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done.
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Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.
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As long as you identify with the universe - which is perfect and can correct material conditions to bring them back into alignment with that Divine perfection - as long as that is where your mind is aligned, it's as though there were two parallel universes. You decide with every thought you think which one you're going to inhabit. Two parallel universes of experience, as it were.
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Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.
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Experiences don't make us damaged goods; it's what we do with those experiences that matters.
