Ryan Gosling Quotes
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.
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I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.
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Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.
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Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.
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Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
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I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.
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You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.
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I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.
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I play chess about four hours a day in training camp. You have to decide what move to use, or what combination of moves. I think less when I box because the reaction time is a lot quicker, but some people call me the chess boxer because they say I think too much in the ring. I take my time and they don't see the action they want. Some boxers just go in there and just throw punches and hope to win.
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I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.
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My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
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The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.
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I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.
