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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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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The crowd can be a little different in some places. For example, in Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.
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In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
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I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all.
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I remember a song I did called 'If the Good Die Young' - I wanted to have a lead guitar solo on there, and the label flipped out! It was too rock and roll. They made us go back and put fiddle on the solo.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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The good that men do lives after them.
