John Ruskin Quotes
I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.
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I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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I love seeing lingerie on the runway, but I personally think it's best to save it for the bedroom!
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Isaac's humility did not discriminate between man and man and scarcely between man and watch. In his thought men were much like their watches. The passage of time was marked as clearly upon a man's face as upon that of his watch and the marvelous mechanism of his body could be as cruelly disturbed by evil hazards. The outer case varied, gunmetal or gold, carter's corduroy or bishop's broadcloth, but the tick of the pulse was the same, the beating of life that gave such a heartbreaking illusion of eternity.
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I learned when I was a student in Connecticut. I had an Italian-American teacher who gave me classes for a week, and then said, "Okay, you're ready." And I wasn't ready. I didn't know how to drive!. But he knew the policeman who gave the test. And that's how I got through.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?
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I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
