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.
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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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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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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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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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I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
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The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
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The prediction of my disruption theory would be that Apple won't succeed with the iPhone. They've launched an innovation that the existing players in the industry are heavily motivated to beat: It's not truly disruptive. History speaks pretty loudly on that, that the probability of success is going to be limited.
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Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
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Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
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We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.
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I want to be my own person. I want to make a name for myself instead of having the name attached to me.
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The Eskimo, like any pre-literate, leaps easily from the Paleolithic stone age to the electric age, by-passing the Neolithic specialism.
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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.
