Steve Rushin Quotes

What's certain is that ranking powerful people is inherently self-defeating. For starters, true potentates know who they are without being told, and they have no need to announce it.

Steve Rushin

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PeoplePowerfulKnowTrueNeedWho

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

Jim Harrison

ShortLongOverThings

Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.

Joanna Lumley

AnimalStupidEnoughJungleGoThem

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Jessica Lange

LoveYourselfStoryActingPersonal

The worst gift I have ever gotten on Christmas is going to see Tim Allen in 'The Santa Clause.'

John Gourley

GiftChristmasWorstSeeGoingEver

My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him.

Michael Haneke

MotherGirlUniformKnowYoungShe

I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.

Stephen Cole Kleene

ThinkRememberSeeingHimPostEver

Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing, access to education, and public benefits. They're relegated to a permanent undercaste.

Michelle Alexander

EducationFreeLegalDiscrimination

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

LifeFearLiveCreativeLoseWrong

I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying.

Devon Sawa

SayingInterestingAlwaysLighting

I hate when people call me 'The Boz'.

Brian Bosworth

HatePeopleMeCall

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

Wyclef Jean

LovePeopleLovedEntertainmentLike

It seems that Argentina is incapable of looking critically at its tragic military adventure in the Falklands.

Pepe Eliaschev

AdventureLookingMilitaryArgentina

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