John Ruskin Quotes
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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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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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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Education is the social bedrock for the hopes and dreams of our children and the foundation that is necessary for their future prosperity.
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Many women are heads of households. Many are the primary wage earners for their families.
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
