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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Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free- indeed, sanctimonious- way for 'progressives' to be racists.
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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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What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world?
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Let the boy win his spurs.
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Puerto Rico is the perfect meeting place between Spain, the country I come from, and America, the country where I now belong. The meeting point of two worlds where magic can happen.
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What is government? From the outside it looks like a security system based on the marriage of land and people, From the inside, it looks like and attempts to create a community. A government is like an oyster, hard on the outside and soft on the inside, and the outside and inside are utterly dependent on each other.
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As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
