John Ruskin Quotes
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
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My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs
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The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007 when I came across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of American Sign Language.
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The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.
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Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
