John Ruskin Quotes
The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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The Price Is Right can really get me going.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.
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The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.
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Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.
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Admitting he never had any religion, he calls a friend his 'god' and the love of other people, God's spirit.
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
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There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.
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In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.
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You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
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When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.
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The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.
