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 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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Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
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And when I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death.And neither one particularly appeals to me.
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The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
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At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.
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I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with 'we' I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public.
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I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.
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I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.
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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.
