John Ruskin Quotes
There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.
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I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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Harry Potter is awesome.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.
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Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.
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I think the purpose of test screenings is different for the studio and for the filmmaker. For the studio, I think they want to know whether the film works or not.
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Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.
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There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
