John Ruskin Quotes
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.
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My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
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I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.
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There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.
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One of the hardest things I've had to learn is to let it go. At the end of the show or the end of the rehearsal day to just take a deep breath and say, "Alright, that was it. That was the day."
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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
