Norman Rush Quotes
I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.

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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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The view of Earth is spectacular.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an awful lot of time checking in with the people who administer TARP over everything from hiring to executive compensation and management. For a global company, that adds up to a lot of distraction.
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Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.