Ruth Gordon Quotes
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
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I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part - getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.
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If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.
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People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
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What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.
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What we want is for our young people to be skilled.
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We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.
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Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.
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In my eyes, I think it's important that if you're doing something you're proud of and that is genuine and authentic, you have a responsibility to bring that to as many people as possible, just for the sheer reason that there are musicians out there who are manufacturing emotions that aren't genuine.
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I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.
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I am not 'most' and I am not 'people'.
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I wasn't opposed to the VCR. The MPAA tried to establish by law that the VCR was infringing on copyright. Then we would go to the Congress and get a copyright royalty fee put on all blank videocassettes and that would go back to the creators.
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Well, when you're recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they're trying to sell the album. So those two ideas clash sometimes, but in the end it always works out. When you put the two together, that's a good thing.
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Do people get moral when they don't get ahead?
