Steve Rushin Quotes
With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
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Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.
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It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.
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There are certain projects that you love to be involved in, no matter what the capacity, and there are certain projects that I probably wouldn't even consider getting behind.
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Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
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I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.
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I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.
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Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball.
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I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.
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With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
