John Ruskin Quotes
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
Sally Field -
The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
Tara Reid -
School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
Larry Hogan -
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.
R. A. Salvatore -
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.
Daniel Ellsberg -
I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
Natalie Portman
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Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
Dan Quisenberry -
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
Octavia E. Butler -
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
Samuel Pepys -
I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.
Karin Slaughter -
Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
Daisy Berkowitz -
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
W. Somerset Maugham
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After all, this is the Nation's ultimate judicial tribunal, nor a super-legal-aid bureau.
Felix Frankfurter -
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Lawyer -
Risk played a really important role in making me the person I am.
Ben Carson -
He carried with him the aura of a prophet, a magician, a witch doctor, a psychoanalyst, and a feared father of a Jewish home.... He was the force that held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together, and made them permanent.
Elia Kazan -
I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.
Charles Koch -
Most of my favorite artists are strong females.
Charli XCX
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Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.
Joe Bastianich -
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
À partir de cet instant, je n’avais plus un seul pas à faire, le sol marchait pour moi dans ce jardin où depuis si longtemps mes actes avaient cessé d’être accompagnés d’attention volontaire: l’Habitude venait de me prendre dans ses bras et me portait jusqu’à mon lit comme un petit enfant.
Marcel Proust -
You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.
Albert Einstein -
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin