John Ruskin Quotes
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
Quotes to Explore
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
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I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
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I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
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I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
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What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
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It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
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The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.
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I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.
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As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.
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Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.
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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
