John Ruskin Quotes
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
Quotes to Explore
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I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
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I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college - I still can't pay attention - and then had a series of day jobs. But always, continuously, I have written.
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I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.
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Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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After all, this is the Nation's ultimate judicial tribunal, nor a super-legal-aid bureau.
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Many young poets, nowadays, are insured against everything. For them poetry is a game like court tennis or squash racquets - one they learned at college - and they play it with propriety, as part of their social and academic existence; their poems are occasional verse for which life itself is only one more occasion.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Risk played a really important role in making me the person I am.
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I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of sad and futile opposition to the dictates of either heart or reason. The presence of an enthusiast makes me as cold as a midwinter's day, and, I believe, frequent association with a listless phlegmatic would make me an impassioned dreamer.
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There's a danger of some of the best people saying, 'I don't want a career in science.'
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Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.
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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
