Ruth Gordon Quotes
Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.
Ruth Gordon
Quotes to Explore
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I learned some big lessons on my first film, a horror film which was never released in the U.S., even though we sold it to Harvey Weinstein for a lot of money.
Jonathan Levine
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When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of both, usually without acknowledging that markets work best when well regulated, that private enterprise cannot meet every human need, that government has always played a critical role in our economy, and that the profit motive can be socially and environmentally destructive as well as dynamic.
Joe Conason
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Unless he really starts feeling good, in all likelihood I wouldn't think he'd go this week.
Joe Gibbs
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Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.
Angela Davis
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I had fallen in love with a young man... and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery...
Gertrude B. Elion
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All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big.
David John Haskins
Bauhaus
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There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions, because there is such a large variety of dispositions. I believe that each individual should embark upon a spiritual path that is best suited to his or her mental disposition, natural inclination, temperament, belief, family and cultural background.
Dalai Lama
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The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
William H. Seward
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You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I will ruin you.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.
Ruth Gordon
