John Ruskin Quotes
Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
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One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone
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It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite sides respectively.
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His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.
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There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."
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Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
