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 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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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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The tough matches never go my way, so I want to change that.
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I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can be a real journey to accept what that bond is once you both mature into it. Because it's not always what you want. It's not always what you expect. It's not always what you imagined or hoped. But it's one of the most important things in the world.
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Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.
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What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.
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I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.
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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.
