Ruth Gordon Quotes
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
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When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
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We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.
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Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.
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You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
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I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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For me, family feels like a web of love and care, and instinctively, too, I do just like nurturing things.
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I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.
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Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.
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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
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In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.
