Norman Rush Quotes
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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I work twice as hard as everybody else.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.
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I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.
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It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.
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Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.
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Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.
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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
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Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
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This stuff marijuana keeps me sane and happy. I'd say it's a great drug - but obviously it's not very healthy.
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Hispanics have a long tradition of defiance against authority. Come to that, the Irish and Italians and Jews also have a long tradition of defiance against authority. Thinking it over, everybody has a long tradition of defiance against authority. (Except the Germans, of course.)
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I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?
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My pursuit was more in the music thing, so I never went out pursuing movies. It was more just pursuing my singing career because people came to me for singing more than they did for doing movies.
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Small breasts are best for the long haul.
