John Ruskin Quotes
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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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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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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I think we have the best women's division on Smackdown Live. But, I miss Charlotte like a son of a gun. She's my favorite person to be in the ring with. She's the most incredible talent, and she keeps improving. When you've got a talent like that who's always stepping up their game, it always keeps you stepping up your game.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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I have no ill will about anything.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
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Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.
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Men are led by trifles.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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My goal has always been to just be a person who makes great art.
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
