John Ruskin Quotes
To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.
Quotes to Explore
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Go West, young man.
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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Being prepared helps you feel more confident at the doctor's office. Think about what you want to ask and write those questions down.
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To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.
