John Ruskin Quotes
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.
Quotes to Explore
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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I hate the word sexy.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...
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I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
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It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.
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We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.
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My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
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People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.
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Talk is cheap; play the game.
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Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.
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Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.
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I put my energy, voice, and spirit into fighting for anybody who wants to speak their voice. I don't care what the right wing, the left wing, or the chicken wing has to say.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.
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What's the point of rap if you can't be yourself, huh?
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It may be a political opportunity that won't pass our way again in our political lifetimes.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.
