John Ruskin Quotes
No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
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I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.
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I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When I'm in the gym or running alone, there's always music. If I'm in the weights gym, I usually go for rap or rock music; for running, it's dance or cheesy pop.
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I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.
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I don't prepare for wearing a bikini; I always have a bit of a tummy.
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I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.
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With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!
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There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.
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I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.
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No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
