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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

  

  Alain Robert
  • Feeling
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• When I see a young girl, I can see why you would be attracted if you were a man. I remember when it was like that for me, too, and it was nice.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Why
  • Remember
  • Girl

• I did start out quiet, and I found out you can change a person's life by simply saying, 'Hey,' or, 'How was your day?' Not everybody gets that opportunity with the way society views you or how you look or the way you dress or how you interact. You hear the weird cliches: socially awkward. I think we're all socially awkward.

  

  DeAngelo Williams
  • Life
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Death
  • Human
  • Consciousness

• What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Work
  • Money
  • Home

• You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.

  

  Jacob K. Javits
  • World
  • Remember
  • Society

• I've done quite a few films that are based on books, and it's always nerve-wracking because there's an audience who has read and loved the book, and what if they see the movie and hate it?

  

  Angourie Rice
  • Done
  • Book
  • Movie

• A new factor enters the situation when we encounter the influence of ‘scientific socialism.’ It is true, the party platform declares that ‘religion is a private affair.’ The saving of souls is the only industry that socialism distinctly relegates to private enterprise.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • True
  • Party

• 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