John Ruskin Quotes
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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I feel bad for my little cousins who don't see themselves being represented, or the little girls in my community who won't have a chance to see a Disney princess... who resembles them.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.
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I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.
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The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity.
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For the first time there was constructed with this machine locomotive engine a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.
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There are plenty of models who have children.
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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
