Steve Rushin Quotes
In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.
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It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.
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It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.
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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
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The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
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The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
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Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.
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When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
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It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.
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I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.
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The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
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I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.
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Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
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The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
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I must have auditioned for this movie at least 25 times. This was a 4-month process. I have to check my sources on this but, I think I beat out Cameron Diaz's record for how many times she auditioned for "The Mask," with how many times I auditioned for this movie.
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Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
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It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.
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In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.
