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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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.
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Sometimes, when you are one of only a couple of girls in an engineering class, you feel like you are representing women in general. That is a large burden to bear.
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I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
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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.
