Ruth Gordon Quotes
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I certainly think that we can take steps to prevent this kind of weapon that is designed to create mass casualties from getting into the hands of the wrong people while still protecting the Second Amendment rights of the people of New Hampshire and making sure that we're protecting the ownership and use of legitimate hunting rifles.
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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.
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Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
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Israel must take decisions that are good to Israel. We must not try to satisfy anyone else, including our closest ally, the United States of America.
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You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.
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Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.
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I know that I'm in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!
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Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don't like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.
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I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film.
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Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.
