Steve Rushin Quotes
There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.
Quotes to Explore
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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'Kepe from haire. Der fevreblau hast bifallen us.'
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God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.
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I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.
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I was glad I liked chemistry.
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I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.
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We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.
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It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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I am not concerned about two successive defeats, ... I am just sad for the players that they haven't got their due rewards.
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I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.
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There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.
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You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs―the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limbs, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate―the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.
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Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections
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Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.
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For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.
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The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.
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There is not a need to know my friend’s caste and religion in order to remain friends with them; rather they are my family members who I got from different mothers.
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An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.
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Our civilization represses not only "the instincts", not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one-dimensional men, it is not surprising that someone with an insistent experience of other dimensions, that he cannot entirely deny or forget, will run the risk either of being destroyed by the others, or of betraying what he knows.
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.
