John Ruskin Quotes
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
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I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.
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'How long have we been friends, Dan?''I wouldn’t exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.'
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Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
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There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it's a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent's financial resources.
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I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.
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I seriously love Cleveland. It's a great city.
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I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!
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When I'm very motivated, and when I have to compete, I change a little bit; I become very competitive.
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If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.
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My dad was a really funny, really talented guy who had a great success in a limited audience. But from him, I learned that he always felt the audience was entitled to 150 per cent. If he was performing at an event, he'd keep playing until the last person had finished dancing.
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I grew up three and a half hours outside of Chicago, but people would call me a 'hick' or 'country boy.' Maybe it's because I talked with more of a country accent.
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Why do something that's already been done?
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We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.
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I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy.
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The unconquerable pang of despised love.
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With gay marriage there's the whole question of what marriage represents, in what's a religious ceremony for many people.
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Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.
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God is the only Friend for the Soul on the Way to God.
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One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.
