John Ruskin Quotes
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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.
Isaac Asimov -
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.
Iain Banks -
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.
Tanit Phoenix -
I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
Eddy Arnold -
When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
LaToya Jackson -
I don't mind a bikini bottom.
Kate Moss
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
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.
Rachel Corrie -
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.
Raney Aronson-Rath -
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
Sallust -
Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
Adam Cohen -
Without literature my life would be miserable.
Naguib Mahfouz
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
Walter Kirn -
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.
Adam D'Angelo -
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
Victor Hugo -
I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
Maeve Binchy -
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Cardio is tough after a day of skating, but with my iPod I can get into the moment and complete the cardio training for the day.
Sasha Cohen -
Really, initially what I very quickly realized that I was loving about the show was, because it reminded me of when I was a kid and I would visit the sets where my dad was shooting with the other puppeteers.
Brian Henson -
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
Bayard Rustin -
They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of Abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.
Abraham Lincoln -
“Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three continents. The Book of Negroes recites the pain, misery and liberation of one African woman, Aminata Diallo, who was stolen from her homeland and sold into American slavery. Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora. I wept upon reading this story. The Book of Negroes is courageous, breathtaking, simply brilliant.”
Afua Cooper -
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
John Ruskin