John Ruskin Quotes
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
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I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?
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I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.
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The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.
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It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
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My dad was the way he was, but he also gave me a motto: never say die. Just to keep pushing and pushing, fighting until the end. He put it in my head that you're always going to fight, and you're always going to beat them.
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
