John Ruskin Quotes
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.
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Representation is a sort of surveillance.
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Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
