Benjamin Rush Quotes
Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office.
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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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There's a seven disc C.D. changer in her car, and I'm in every single slot, and you're not.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.
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There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
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I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day.
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When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.
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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
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The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed unless we do something about it. If you haven't noticed, the children who are our future are good-looking, but they aren't all that bright. As dense as they might be, they will eventually notice that adults have spent all the money, spread disease, and turned the planet into a smoky, filthy ball of death. We're raising an entire generation of dumb, pissed-off kids who know where the handguns are kept. This is not a good recipe for a happy future.
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I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.
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Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.
