Ruth Gordon Quotes

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?

Ruth Gordon

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• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  

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• Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

  

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• My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

  

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• Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

  

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• And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

  

  Dan Castellaneta
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• I feel it's better to be loved and respected. If people fear you, you can get killed. If you're feared, nobody likes you. If you're feared nobody treats you the right way. You never get the right answers. You ask somebody if this is good, they'll tell you it's good even if it's bad. Nobody wants to be feared. You want to be respected.

  

  LL Cool J
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• My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

  

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• Hy gododin catann hue Hud a lledrith mal wyddan Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri Varigal don Fincayra Dravia, dravia Fincayra (Talking trees and walking stones, Giants aare the island's bones. While this land our dance still knows, Varigal crowns Fincayra. Live long, live long Fincayra.

  

  T.A. Barron
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• We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?

  

  Alicia Keys
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• The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• A good idea is worthless without impeccable execution and a commitment to iterate.

  

  Zach Klein
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• At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed window – do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physically capable of no more, or does it eventually learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough?

  

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• The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don't give their parents a moment's worry.

  

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• We stopped doing the things that got us the lead, both offensively and defensively. You can feel it. You're not getting easy shots anymore.

  

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• Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.

  

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• may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back

  

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• I tend to over extend myself without really thinking throughthe realities of completing so many projects in a year, which generally means I'm going to be a little bit behind. I suppose that's the nature of the beast.

  

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• Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.

  

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• There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
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• The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?

  

  Ruth Gordon
  • Mean
  • Kissing
  • Actresses