Ruth Gordon Quotes
I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
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I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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I was a kid when I did the hit show 'Kasturi' in 2007. Maybe stardom went to my head and I thought I was bigger than I actually was. I took everything for granted.
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I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
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There is nothing more important than staying alert, reading your opponent, that counts for both inside and outside the ring.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
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I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.
