Molly Ringwald Quotes
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	Timidity does not inspire bold acts.   
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	Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.   
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	No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.   
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	We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.   
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	Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.   
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	I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.   
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	We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.   
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	Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.   
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	I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.   
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	I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.   
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	I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.   
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	What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.   
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	Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.   
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	When I'm not working, I like to play golf.   
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	Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.   
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	I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.   
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	Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.   
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	I totally regret as a German what happened at this point of history. But when people ask me are you, as a German, feel responsible for the Holocaust? No, because I'm born 1965 and it would be completely un-logical to say I'm responsible, but as a country we are responsible.   
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	I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.   
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	Now, I'm not going to be misquoted on this like I have numerous times before, so I'll be quite clear. I've never said hitler was my hero, just that if he had focused on more than one race he would have had the right idea. Try to turn that one against me.   
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	It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.   
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	It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.   
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	Directing is a very, very difficult job.   
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	Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					