John Ruskin Quotes
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.
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Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.
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I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him.
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As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.
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I love clothes, so when I wear clothes, they're usually somebody's. You know, I'm not wearing Kmart.
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The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.
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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
