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.
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Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.
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Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.
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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.
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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.
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The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.
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That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.
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I grew up watching Dr. J, and I was like, 'Oh my God, this guy is the greatest basketball player I ever saw.'
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I'm a big supporter of this product for women. And my relationship with the brand Berlei was so organic. I would go to the store and buy 40 or 50 bras every year because I could only get them in Australia at the time. And then eventually they heard that I would come and take all the stock.
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I thought we’d get to see forever. But forever’s gone away. It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.
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The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
