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.

Steve Rushin

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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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Joy
  • Socks

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Jewish

• He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trump

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Done
  • Effort

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Old
  • Innocent
  • Grow

• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • School
  • Science
  • Education

• I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • People
  • Myself
  • Car

• 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.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Time
  • Me
  • Environment

• No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Responsibility
  • Coaching

• 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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Job
  • Service
  • Politics

• 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.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Time
  • Party
  • Dumb

• Looking fifty is great-if you're sixty.

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Great

• 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.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Up
  • Time

• Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Game
  • Death
  • Cure

• Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Heart
  • Lights

• Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

  

  Aberjhani
  • True
  • Nature
  • Lost

• It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Today
  • Wine
  • Computer

• Once upon a time in America, people aspired to party like a rock star. Now, rock stars aspire to party like a football owner.

  

  Steve Rushin
  • Party
  • Rock Star
  • Footballer