Ruth Gordon Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.
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I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
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I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.
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I was into Batman. I was into Spider-Man.
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I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.
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The U.K. crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.
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For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
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My earliest memories were on the cattle stations up in the Outback. And then we moved back to Melbourne and then back out there and then back again. Probably my most vivid memories were up there in Bulman with crocodiles and buffalo.
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I am a person who always tries not to be easily influenced by position or achievement. I thank God for the fact that I can share more kindness and a good quality of life through the popularity. Not for the popularity itself.
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Like with 'Parks and Recreation,' it's so much fun because the people writing it are funny and they're open and you just go in there and have a good time. It's pretty much the easiest job I've ever had.
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Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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The good that men do lives after them.
