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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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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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 want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.
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In the years after the expedition to Chad, I started the Honnold Foundation, a small nonprofit that was my attempt to do something positive in the world. I sought out projects that both helped the environment and improved peoples' standards of living. The more I researched, the more I gravitated toward solar.
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'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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While people are celebrating on Sunday we shouldn't forget the people who fought for lifting this ban are in jail.
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Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.
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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.
