Ruth Gordon Quotes
So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?Ruth Gordon
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne -
In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
Gayle Forman -
There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
Sam Harris -
As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.
Dan Webster -
One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.
Barbara Broccoli -
Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
Aaron Sorkin
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
Victor LaValle -
The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
Garrison Keillor -
I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
Harold Ramis -
I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.
Parker Posey -
If I am comfortable with my co-star, then that always shows in my performances.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
W. Somerset Maugham
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The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.
Gail Collins -
Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.
Edmund Phelps -
I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.
Aarti Sequeira -
If we are weak, our country will be in jeopardy. It is the living lesson of human history of the rise and fall of nations. In order for a country not to fall, it must cultivate its own strength.
Park Chung-hee -
All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles.
Aubrey Beardsley -
The clock of doom had struck as fated;the poet, without a sound,let fall his pistol on the ground.
Alexander Pushkin
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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
Lech Walesa -
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
George Horace Lorimer -
The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.
Jack Reed -
Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.
Seth Godin -
Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
Albert Einstein -
So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?
Ruth Gordon