Benjamin Rush Quotes
It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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I believe in my music.
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I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.
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I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.
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I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.
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It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...
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I am a very good driver - a defensive driver.
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It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.
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Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.
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It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.
