John Ruskin Quotes
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
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I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
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I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.
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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.
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I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
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The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.
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You have to feel good about yourself.
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To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.
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Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.
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It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.
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Congress is debating a kill switch that would allow President Obama to freeze all activity on the internet if there was a national emergency. The kill switch goes by the top-secret code name 'Microsoft Windows.'
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.
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Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
