John Ruskin Quotes
I have always found that the less we speak of our intentions, the more chance there is of our realizing them.
Quotes to Explore
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't change my perception of it, that doesn't change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction.
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Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer.
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The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.
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I really don't want my daughters to know me for being that guy who sings songs.
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Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.
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I have always found that the less we speak of our intentions, the more chance there is of our realizing them.
