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Steve Rushin Quotes

My first interview at 'SI,' I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.

Steve Rushin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 22, 1966

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Silence New York Team Ice Early New

But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.

Alphonso Jackson

Best Government I Am World Know Two

The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

Stephen Wolfram

Science Progress Me World Building

Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.

Tom Reiss

Age Heart Old Age Problems Someone

My grandmother is one of the biggest inspirations of my life. She was my biggest fan, and she made sure everybody knew it. Her never-ending joy was infectious, and there wasn't anyone who could beat her at partying and having fun.

Roberto Aguire

Life Fun Joy Having Fun My Life She

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

Ruth Pitter

Night Thinking Remember Find Dark

In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before.

Romesh Gunesekera

Perspective Building Library London

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

Rufus Sewell

Opportunity People Door Talk Gate

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Rupert Brooke

Cats Night Will Reveal Like Cities

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.

Mitch Landrieu

Strength Beautiful Together Simple

I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.

Lorde

Good Me Cool Song Know Sometimes

You want, whenever you're telling a story, to have a certain amount of range, and you want to be able to take the audience on that ride with you.

Cliff Chiang

Ride Story You Want Audience Take

For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.

Alix Smith

Art Me Strong Drama Two Things