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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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 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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To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.
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It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.
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It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.
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Only if you aspire for more will you achieve more.
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There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.
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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
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Hard-earned achievement brings a sense of self-worth. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God. A consecrated life is filled with work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes menial, sometimes unappreciated but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, aspires.
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One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.
