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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My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.
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There will come an age when our average life expectancy will reach 200 years.
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Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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Vampires were an excellent springboard. I still love them; they fascinate me.
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Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.
