John Ruskin Quotes
In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
Walter Salles -
Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
Idris Elba -
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
Tallulah Bankhead -
I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
Adam Clayton U2 -
When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
Zong Qinghou
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
Walter Cronkite -
Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
Garry Trudeau -
What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
K. A. Applegate -
I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.
Lake Bell -
When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
Ville Valo HIM -
It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
Jack O'Brien
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
Abel Ferrara -
I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.
Barton Gellman -
Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
Edmund Morgan -
You can never overlook a guy.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script.
Larenz Tate -
I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.
Rajneesh
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Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I don't take advances for my books.
Andrew Vachss -
We can all be free Maybe not with words Maybe not with a look But with your mind
Cat Power -
I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.
Les Claypool -
In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
John Ruskin