David Ruggles Quotes
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I think I was about 14 when I did my first makeup. I was like, 'Wow, I really like this what do you call it? Makeup thing?'
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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Home is where one starts from.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
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I think we're going to demonstrate the power of one-to-one computer access that's going to transform education. … The economic future will belong to the technologically adept.
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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
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If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.
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The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
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When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.
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Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.
