Emily V. Gordon Quotes
Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
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I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.
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The Marine Corps has to ask itself, 'What does our nation need from its premier crisis response force?' We are America's shock troops in war and peace. I know it sounds corny, but it's not.
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I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.
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Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
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Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.
