Burton Rascoe Quotes
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.
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A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
