Mercedes Ruehl Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
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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.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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I just grill chicken and make very simple cuisine.
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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.
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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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.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Unfortunately, deprivation diets don’t work for three reasons: 1) Our body fights against them; 2) our brain fights against them; and 3) our day-to-day environment fights against them.
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If you believe in what you're doing, you should just do it. You'll keep getting better.
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We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.
