John Ruskin Quotes
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.
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People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
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I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.
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Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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I have my cousin's jacket from when he was at war in Iraq. He never came home. It's incredible to have something that is so personal but that I also feel relatively comfortable wearing.
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I love Jill Scott! I love everything she puts on, how she does her hair; everything about Jill Scott is amazing!
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A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.
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As long as you give your best effort, I feel like that's all you can do.
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It's always an emotional blow when you lose any guy, let alone a guy like Le'Veon Bell.
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I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
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Because our Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ, are perfect, our dearest aspiration is to become like Them and eventually achieve the perfection that is possible and promised, even though each of us has such a long way to go.
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
