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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 all the time.


Ruth Cisero

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RUTH REICHL We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
RUTH BROWN There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.
RUTH BROWN There were times that Harvey (Fuqua), myself, B.B King, we almost had to go to jail to sing this stu...
RUTH BROWN All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as ...
RUTH BROWN I traveled all through the deep South, but I was not getting on the big TV shows.
RUTH BROWN We get more complaints now because of the cost. Insurance companies are looking at limiting benefits...
RUTH CASE The American dream is to have your own home and to have some sort of security with health insurance....
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RUTH WARRICK Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the intern...
RUTH ASAWA Anthony is the anti-aesthete,
RUTH REICHL We applaud the FDA for defining what whole grain is. Unfortunately, the FDA has not defined any clai...
RUTH LITCHFIELD I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent ...
RUTH RENDELL I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with ...
RUTH PORAT Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on ...
RUTH FIRST Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I ...
RUTH RENDELL Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth
RUTH MCKENNEY I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.
RUTH RENDELL After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.&...
RUTH GLICK I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it becaus...
RUTH WARRICK 'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals wi...
RUTH REICHL I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our b...
RUTH REICHL I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
RUTH BENEDICT I am absolutely clear that the scandal of junk food served every day in school canteens must end. So...
RUTH KELLY