John Ruskin Quotes
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland's biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
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If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.
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I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that. And then the fact that my children are okay. You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.
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All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
