John Ruskin Quotes
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I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.
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Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
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Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
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Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
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...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.
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Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls.
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The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.
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I work to stay alive.
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The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
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He who is not actively kind is cruel!
