Benjamin Rush Quotes
I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.
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I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
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Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
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That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.
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I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.
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As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.
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Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.
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One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.
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On the craft level, writing for children is not so different from writing for adults. You still have to have a story that moves forward. You still have to have the tools of the trade down. The difference arises in the knowledge of who you're writing for. This isn't necessary true of writing for adults.
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Respect People, Inspect Ideas.
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I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
