Ruth Gordon Quotes
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.
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Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.
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So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
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I have some sarcastic sides of me.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.
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Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.
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(Econometrics is) the unification of economic theory, statistics and mathematics.
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Men tend to put all their emotional eggs in the basket of their wives (or womenfriends), it is difficult for a man to communicate feelings of disappointment to his wife because, if she withdraws, it feels to him like his entire emotional support system has collapsed.
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We need to have more second chance programs. I'm glad that we're ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to see them ended in the state system. You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans. So there are some positive ways we can work on this.
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I've always believed that as actors, one of the biggest advantages of being in the film business - not just of being actors, but being in this industry - is the fact that you get to travel so much, and you get to see places that you probably would not if you went just as a tourist.
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You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
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In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
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Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?
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Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.
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To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.
