John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
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All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.
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I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
