Kim Gordon Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to work while the other one was.
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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
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Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.
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The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
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Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
