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 women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.
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A 97-percent win is the kind of result you get in a one-party regime.
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Those who will not worship at the shrine of money, need not hope for recognition. On the other hand, they will also not have to think other people’s thoughts or wear other people’s political clothes. They will not have to proclaim as true that which is false, nor praise that as humanitarian which is brutal.
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This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never been seen before. The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. And I hope that thinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down.
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As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
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Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.
