Steve Rushin Quotes
Once upon a time in America, people aspired to party like a rock star. Now, rock stars aspire to party like a football owner.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
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It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and 'Touch this, that, and the other,' it's too much for me. I find it hard to tolerate that sort of stuff. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. You're wasting everyone's time.
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No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
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I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.
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I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.
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Looking fifty is great-if you're sixty.
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Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You'd be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.
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I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.
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I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records, those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.
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Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
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People spend their careers trying to figure out what makes a hit single. But I learned a long time ago that you can't anticipate what people want, because it's always going to change.
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Good or bad people can be democratically elected, but it is always easy to fight for human rights under this system.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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When it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white, and blue party.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Once upon a time in America, people aspired to party like a rock star. Now, rock stars aspire to party like a football owner.
