Ruth Gordon Quotes
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.
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Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War. And, of course, his plan was to prolong it until his second election - but he didn't tell us that then.
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If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
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The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.
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Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.
