Steve Rushin Quotes
The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.
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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
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I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea
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The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded.
