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The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness
— J. Rufus Fears
I just think it's better to have ideas. I mean, you can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier, people die for them, people kill for them.
— Rufus Wainwright
People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
— Rufus Sewell
I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.
— Rufus Wainwright
I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.
— Rufus Wainwright
I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
— Rufus Sewell
I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
— Rufus Sewell
Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
SITTING WITH MY UNNEUTERED BULL MASTIFF RUFUS WATCHING 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS WITH STEREO ERECTIONS.
— Vince McMahon
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy.
— Rufus Sewell
wealth is able to buy the pleasures of eating, drinking and other sensual pursuits-yet can never afford a cheerful spirit or freedom from sorrow.
— Musonius Rufus
I'd like an omelet named after me.
— Rufus Sewell
The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.
— Rufus Sewell
What did they call you that you weren't? What did they never say about you that you were?
— Anneli Rufus
Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.
— Rufus Wainwright
After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.
— Rufus Wainwright
This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.
— Rufus King
Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls.
— Rufus Wainwright
Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.
— Rufus Wainwright
A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.
— Rufus Wainwright
For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else.
— Rufus Sewell
I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.
— Rufus Wainwright
It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.
— Rufus Sewell
Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
And yet what has been learned can be unlearned.
— Anneli Rufus
His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent.
— Winston Churchill
I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
— Rufus Wainwright
Life is the longest death in California,
— Rufus Wainwright
A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.
— Rufus Sewell
Alone, we are alive.
— Anneli Rufus
I love being not cool.
— Rufus Wainwright
When I was signed, at the age of 23 ... the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual.
— Rufus Wainwright
My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.
— Rufus Wainwright
Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.
— Rufus Sewell
The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
— Rufus Choate
A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.[Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.] — Quintus Curtius Rufus
I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.
— Rufus Wainwright
I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.
— Rufus Wainwright
I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.
— Rufus Wainwright
I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.
— Rufus Wainwright
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
— Rufus Choate
As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.
— Rufus Wainwright
And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.
— Rufus Wainwright
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.
— Rufus Wainwright
For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.
— Rufus Sewell
I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully.
— Rufus Wainwright
I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.
— Rufus Wainwright
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
— Rufus Choate
Begger or rich man, soldier or merchant, Rufus was indestructible, for the man who could laugh at life or death was in the end the only conqueror.
— Rosemary Anne Sisson
Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back.
— Rufus Sewell
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
— Rufus Wainwright
Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.
— Rufus Choate
I was reared on folk music.
— Rufus Wainwright
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
— Rufus Wainwright
Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.
— Rufus Wainwright
Loners can play well with others-the right others,
— Anneli Rufus
I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.
— Rufus Wainwright
I don't really have a relationship with the guitar; it's like my slutty lover, whereas I'm married to the piano
— Rufus Wainwright
After what others would call a fun day out together, we feel as if we have been at the Red Cross, donating blood.
— Anneli Rufus
Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.
— Rufus Sewell
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.
— Rufus Wainwright
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
— Rufus Wainwright
The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.
— Rufus King
Its Constitutionthe glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate
No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
— Rufus Choate
The more hedonistic you were, the better ... I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.
— Rufus Wainwright
I like to try new things.
— Rufus Wainwright
I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.
— Rufus Jones
FANTASTIC! There is such clarity and so much humor in Stetch's playing! I have always loved that about him.
— Rufus Reid
My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.
— Rufus Wainwright
Somebody curse the light And take me far away from myself
— Rufus Wainwright
I have a good face for what I do.
— Rufus Wainwright
Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.
— Rufus Wainwright
Rufus? He's a grand kisser, and he's dead sexy.
— Catherine McCormack
I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark.
— Rufus Wainwright
Is socializing all that great? Riots are socializing. Arguably, more damage is done and time wasted in company with others than alone.
— Anneli Rufus
Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.
— Rufus Wainwright
