Ryan Gosling Quotes

I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.

Ryan Gosling

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• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Tears

• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Time
  • Like
  • Arts

• I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Day

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Should
  • Fiction
  • African

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Food
  • Hand
  • Service

• Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Teach
  • Insight
  • Reveal

• I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Political
  • Events
  • Meet

• I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Look
  • Relationships
  • Seeing

• I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Respect
  • Look
  • Just

• On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Duck

• It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Trying
  • Rock
  • Yourself

• I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.'

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Small
  • Police
  • Bold

• I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Book

• It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • Simple
  • Sex

• But the second half of the message has been sorely neglected: the part about God’s dream that you become a precious and cherished son or daughter living in deep union with Him.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • God
  • Dream
  • Living

• Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

  

  William H. Prescott
  • Good
  • Interest
  • Public

• Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Mind
  • Children

• I think that the intentions are genuine in the search for authenticity, but it can tip over into absurdity so quickly. I just start to wonder, like, what authenticity even is, and whether we can even start to define it in such a globalized world.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Wonder

• I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Afar