John Ruskin Quotes
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
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When I come up with a melody in my head, it could be anywhere: in the shower, on the plane, in bed - often when I'm on the go. I'll record it on my phone with my own voice, humming. When I get to the studio, I check which melodies work.
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I like to go to bed around 10 P.M.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
