Ruth Gordon Quotes
So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
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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.
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I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
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I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.
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If I am comfortable with my co-star, then that always shows in my performances.
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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
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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.
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Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.
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I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.
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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.
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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.
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The clock of doom had struck as fated;the poet, without a sound,let fall his pistol on the ground.
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The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.
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I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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My favorite food in the world is hard shell crabs from Maryland.
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Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
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So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?
