Steve Ross (Steven Jay Ross) Quotes
The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
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Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.
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I'm ducked the fuck down while I'm writin this rhyme, cause I'm probably gonna get struck with lightning this time.
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Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
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I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.
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I'm obsessed with frozen yogurt because you don't feel totally guilty eating it. It's not as bad as ice cream, and during the hot summer months, it's a great way to just refresh.
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Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
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We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.
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Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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You see certain guys enough, and you recognize pitches and stuff. Some guys you see better than others.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen. The way contracts work, if you leave one publishing house for another, the characters tend to stay with the previous publishing house.
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If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.
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Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture.
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The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.
