Mercedes Ruehl Quotes

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Mercedes Ruehl

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• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Long
  • Summer
  • June

• If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Book
  • Day

• As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • God
  • Society
  • Marriage

• I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Old
  • Some
  • Videos

• See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Love
  • Game
  • Competition

• Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

  

  Usher
  • May
  • Success
  • Vision

• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Dreams

• I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Great
  • Think
  • Novel

• I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Rising

• Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Children
  • Learn

• I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Done
  • Think
  • Always

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Earth
  • Peace

• I just grill chicken and make very simple cuisine.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Simple
  • Just
  • Chicken

• Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Day

• I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Want
  • Face
  • Decency

• I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • People
  • School
  • Influence

• I grew up in a town called Subang Jaya, and made a lot of friends from around Kuala Lumpur.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Town

• When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Nice

• Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Serious
  • Air

• I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Home

• To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • You
  • Understand
  • Realize

• We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

  

  Mercedes Ruehl
  • Understand
  • Tendencies
  • Condemn