Saul Rubinek Quotes
I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even - I spoke French and Yiddish mostly. I was picked on.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
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I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
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Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
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I'm way too famous and rich to be on a dating app, but if I get very desperate by the time I'm 60, I'll go on Tinder. Or I'll go on 'Millionaire Matchmaker'; I'll call Patti Stanger.
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Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
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Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.
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Before a fight between Riddick Bowe and Hector Gonzales: Generally when there's a lot of smoke . . . there's just a whole lot more smoke.
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You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
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The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.
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I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.
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Poetry's object is truth.
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The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.
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While we had other options, we didn't want to lose what's been a relationship since 1990, and we think they're doing an awfully good job.
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The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious.
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Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.
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I wasn't somebody who raised his finger and then talked in a hushed voice. I always shouted.
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People are always saying, 'You're really nice, I thought you were going to be a complete asshole.' I'm getting pretty fed up with it. I just want to say to them, 'Well I could always piss on your head.'
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My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.
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I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is restorative. I also try not to overreact. I grew up in Ireland, and we are big tea drinkers, and I think it's less about the tea itself and more about the ritual and the moment to prepare.
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I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even - I spoke French and Yiddish mostly. I was picked on.
