Ruth Gordon Quotes

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• I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • People
  • Hate
  • Things

• Hugo Boss is my kind of label.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kind
  • Boss
  • Hugo

• Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Truth
  • Think

• A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Politics
  • Realist
  • Optimist

• What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Father
  • Words
  • Advice

• It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Real
  • Song
  • Me

• You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

  

  AJ McLean
  • You
  • Way
  • Just

• Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

  

  Gary Becker
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Chinese
  • Ship
  • Golden

• We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Baby
  • Become
  • Patient

• 'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Proud
  • Yourself
  • Born

• Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Life
  • Long
  • Remember

• Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Wisdom
  • Never
  • Late

• Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Life
  • Control
  • Life Is A

• I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Good
  • Career

• You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.

  

  Lorraine Bracco
  • Up
  • Long
  • Family

• The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Man
  • Words
  • Right

• I am a-goin' for to tell you here to-day; yes, I'm a-goin for to tell you all, that I'm a plebian! I glory in it; I am a plebian! The people - yes, the people of the United States have made me what I am; and I am a-goin' for to tell you here to-day - yes, to-day, in this place - that the people are everything.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • People

• We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Light
  • Waste
  • Vain

• When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Helping

• It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • World
  • Natural
  • Miracle

• The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

  

  Ruth Gordon
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