Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

Gretchen Rubin

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NatureBeautifulTravelCloudsCity

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

Jimmy Connors

FootballBaseballBasketballYou

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

Jennifer Weiner

PowerMoneyPeoplePotentialYou

Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.

Matthew Stewart

PurposeWorldYouFindOutsideMost

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Jean Rostand

TimeFeelNeedSameWellQuarrel

I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.

Amy Winehouse

GirlHappyThinkMy OwnWorstHead

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Stanley Kubrick

FreedomMoviesSamePaperFilmmaker

Not being treated OK is something everyone can relate to, no matter what age or gender.

Sigrid

AgeGenderMatterEveryoneSomething

Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.

Tom Watson

IntegrityLookingGameEgoGolfYou

Acting is a really insular thing.

Robert Carlyle

ActingReallyThingInsular

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

Rita Rudner

DogPetFeetLongYouMore

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

Judd Apatow

WomenTodayTimeCityThinkRun

I try to win the love and approval of strangers, since it didn't work with my family.

Judy Gold

WorkFamilyLoveWinStrangersTry

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