R.J. Rushdoony Quotes
There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.
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In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.
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I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.
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There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.
