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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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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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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Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.
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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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Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.
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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
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The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.
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The good that men do lives after them.
