Steve Rushin Quotes
The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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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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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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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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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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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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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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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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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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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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My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
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The horse is a mirror to your soul... and sometimes you might not like what you see in the mirror.
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Democracy holds little appeal for people who are struggling to survive.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.
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The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded.
