R.J. Rushdoony Quotes
To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another in search of a better life. This is the point of view of Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and other great supporters of the natural rights tradition in America.
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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
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To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.
