Benjamin Rush Quotes
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.
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Care and pity are two different things.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an awkward forum for me to hang out with another guy and talk about girls, because I can't really find a way to fit in.
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I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.
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Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
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I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
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The daguerreotype itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.
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To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
