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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Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost instantly, the flip side. You have this terrible, terrible anxiety that you've just taken your last good picture.
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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 don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.
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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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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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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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Humans are an embarrassing species w/ small glimmers of beauty that seep through the veil of bigotry&stupidity, every once in a small while.
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It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.
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I've had this happen before. I'll give it one day and be ready to go (today).
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
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Carey Mercer
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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.
