John Ruskin Quotes
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
Quotes to Explore
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.
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I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.
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Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.
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I don't have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly.
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I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
