John Ruskin Quotes
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
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I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.
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I could spend all my time on a plane visiting multiple countries, and I would never visit enough.
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Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.
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In calling for the dismantling of Soviet stocks of chemical weapons, what action will the Minister take towards countries such as Iraq which have used chemical weapons in the recent past? Will he ensure that the maximum possible sanctions are taken against them to show our abhorrence of all chemical weapons wherever they are and by whomsoever they are used?
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I don't understand what people are talking about in different rhymes glorifying jail. If you like going to bed early, getting yelled at, seeing a fight, seeing somebody getting their head split open, or fighting over the TV then that's the place for you.
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
