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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If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
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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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Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
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I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
