John Ruskin Quotes
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
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There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.