S. D Gordon Quotes

No man's hand has ever yet reached up to take as much as the Pierced Hand is reaching down to give.

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• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  

  Fran Kranz
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  • Mean
  • Supernatural

• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
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  • Freedom
  • Attention

• Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Time
  • Single

• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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  • Up
  • World

• I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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  • Why

• My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

  

  Halldor Laxness
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  • Work
  • Thoughts

• I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.

  

  Ed Belfour
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  • Good
  • Night

• I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Hand
  • Cat

• I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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  • Family
  • English

• If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

  

  Octavia Spencer
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  • You
  • Me

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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  • Children
  • Talk

• If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

  

  Randy Quaid
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  • You
  • Stick

• I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.

  

  Dan Wheldon
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  • Good
  • Important

• I pick up on other people's discomfort.

  

  Carice van Houten
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  • Other

• I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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  • Kind
  • Story

• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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  • Nothing
  • Praise

• I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.

  

  J. R. Smith
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  • Guy
  • Down

• I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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  • Myself
  • Deep

• If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Song
  • Tears
  • Frank Sinatra

• If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • Time
  • Good

• The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Job
  • War
  • Boy

• I can swear like a fishwife.

  

  Frances Bay
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  • I Can
  • Swear

• I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• No man's hand has ever yet reached up to take as much as the Pierced Hand is reaching down to give.

  

  S. D Gordon
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