John Ruskin Quotes
To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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There's no way that a third party wins without being in the presidential debates. I think the vast majority of Americans are Libertarian; they just don't know it.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.
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Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
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We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.
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All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work-and therefore as dads.
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.
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You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
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So he believes. The truth may be more...complex.
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'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.
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Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
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The business of education has layed the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.
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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
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To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.
