Rob Sheffield Quotes

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

Rob Sheffield

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I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.

John Wesley

MeSolitudeThoughtChristianEnough

I spent a lot of my career fighting coaches. When coaches told me don't shoot, I'd shoot anyway.

Metta World Peace

MeFightingCareerShootAnywayLot

There is nothing the pop world loves more than a way-out freak.

Amanda Lear

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One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

Star Jones

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I have so many great memories of the wrestling business. I've worked real hard to get to the top, and how many flukes and breaks to have happened that had allowed me to have the success that I did.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.

Russ Feingold

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If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.

Joseph Brodsky

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You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

Joni Mitchell

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Film people can be quite ruthless and tough. I think it's because the industry is filled with talented, driven people chasing nowhere near enough work.

Jon Ronson

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Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

Anselm Kiefer

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Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

Sextus Propertius

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All I ever cared about was actors - toughest job in this business.

Seymour Cassel

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