John Ruskin Quotes
In old times, men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith; in later times, they used the objects of faith that they might show their powers of painting.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
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Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.
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I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.
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Men generally pay for all expenses on a date ... either sex, however, may bring a little gift, its value to be determined by the bizarrness of the sexual request to be made later that evening.
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Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.
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Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
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Out of sheer stubbornness, I just would keep going - just hoping that at some point something would click. I certainly held onto the hope that it might. I had no guarantees, but I trusted that if I worked hard and put in the time, it would eventually reap a fruit. I just didn't know what that fruit was going to be or how big it was going to be.
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In old times, men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith; in later times, they used the objects of faith that they might show their powers of painting.
