Benjamin Rush Quotes

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

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• In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Men
  • Women
  • Employees

• It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Free
  • Sin
  • Clean

• I can't do anything in moderation.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Anything
  • Moderation

• When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Clothes
  • Uncomfortable

• When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • May
  • Process
  • Notes

• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • First
  • Possible
  • Overcome

• I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Little

• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Great
  • May
  • Dog

• My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Age
  • Pretty

• One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Women
  • Favorite
  • Little

• It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Great
  • Real

• Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • Power
  • Help
  • Purpose

• I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Mind

• It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the matter of each thing and that of which it is the matter are one. For even if one and being are spoken of in several ways, what is properly so spoken of is the actuality.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Matter

• Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Interesting
  • Fashion

• The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • People
  • Real
  • Evil

• We don't have some message from God that gives us a list of what's good and what's not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Good
  • God

• At five years old, I became the man of the house. When he left, my dad let me know that. It put a certain drive in me that I can't explain.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • House
  • Dad

• The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.

  

  John T. Flynn
  • Revolution

• Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Years

• 'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Heart

• Every star, whether it's Harrison Ford or Robert De Niro, is remembered by one film. Persis is a star in the sky - how can a star be forgotten when all you have to do is look up and see her?

  

  Persis Khambatta
  • Up
  • Star
  • Sky

• The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Revolution
  • American War