John Ruskin Quotes
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.
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I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
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I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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I've been training quite hard.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside.
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Among the extremely diverse books lumped together as 'mysteries,' I shall try to judge each fairly according to the best standards of the type which the author intended to produce.
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Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
