John Ruskin Quotes
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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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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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.
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My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
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Ultimately, what interests me is using exotic sounds in my songs.
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A relationship is sent by God and accident.
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Coal is a portable climate.
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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.
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Today we are visitors to the airport, tomorrow we will come here as travellers.
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Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty- their power and privilege- to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.
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For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
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Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.
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Instruct me how to thank thee! Oh, to shoot My soul's full meaning into future years, That they should lend it utterance, and salute Love that endures, from life that disappears!
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.'
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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I can intellectualize myself out of anything.
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I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.
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Mexico is becoming the northern part of Latin America, not the U.S.A.'s southern outpost.
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... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.