John Ruskin Quotes
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
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I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.
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We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.
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I wish it to be thoroughly under stood that it is Mr. Seurat, an artist of great worth, who has been the first to conceive the idea of applying the scientific theory after making a profound study of it. I have only followed, like my confreres, the example set by Seurat.
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...his head emerged cautiously, like that of a snail taking a look around after a thunderstorm.
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But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.
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TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.
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I like to question cultural biases wherever I go, and I question Islamophobia as much as I question anti-western sentiment because I think all extremist ideologies are very similar.
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I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!
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It's all about hustling, whether it's in Boston or the film industry. I've been hustling my entire life - acting my way into trouble and acting my way back out again. I'm just fortunate to have had the opportunity to apply it in a different direction.
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I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.
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There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.
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It was a very funny conference. I knew Christopher Hitchens before that. He had always been a good angel to me. He once stole a phrase from me that came out of his mouth on television. I saw his eyes move sideways. I thought, It's alright, you can have it! The conference was light on women. Salman Rushdie showed up, they were doing their own thing. I didn't feel neglected!
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In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
