John Ruskin Quotes
There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
Quotes to Explore
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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Coffee makes me go crazy.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.
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It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.
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I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
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First appearance deceives many.
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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
