Nancy Ruth Quotes
One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.
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In Mumbai, you have to act in real life, too.
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I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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Sometimes people will find things that are wrong. Sometimes they will even find an approach that you took wrong. If you think you took the right approach, then you just absorb the criticism, but you don't change your mind.
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The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
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One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.
