John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.
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'Conservative talk radio hosts have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian.'
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
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Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.
