Steve Rushin Quotes
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom.
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Every casting director I've met is a woman.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!
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Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.
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In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. Do not be fooled by apparent exceptions.
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I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.
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We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances.
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When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.
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With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.
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I'm not so keen on letting my car drive itself.
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It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.
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Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
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Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
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I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!
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Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.
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History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.
