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If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.


Ruth J. Simmons

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RUTH RENDELL I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you hal...
RUTH REICHL Liquidity is oxygen for a financial system.
RUTH PORAT I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then...
RUTH RENDELL Beth Garber did very well in the No. 2 spot. Jenny Christen, in the No. 6 spot and her first time on...
RUTH PINKERTON What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were...
RUTH REICHL She's another Tina Turner is what I see,
RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; ...
RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays.
RUTH BROWN And, of course, I was singing cheap.
RUTH BROWN There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because o...
RUTH BROWN We're at the cutting edge. The purely oral approach is newer and experimental in that it's not happe...
RUTH HUBBARD In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're ...
RUTH NEGGA We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, th...
RUTH RENDELL People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called ...
RUTH OZEKI People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, no...
RUTH RENDELL My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means underst...
RUTH REICHL I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's n...
RUTH NEGGA I don't know that we'll be able to sell, statewide, anything less than a five-buck limit.
CHARLES RUTH My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times ...
RUTH RENDELL Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950...
RUTH RENDELL Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.
RUTH ASAWA He's a cat's cat, he climbs trees and sits on people's roofs but now he's forced to be in the house ...
RUTH CISERO To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oce...
RUTH BERNHARD We really lifted that ball and there was some great intercepts to see.
RUTH AITKEN