John Ruskin Quotes
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
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I always eat a huge breakfast on match days even though my stomach hates it.
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You have to be very vocal about being willing to fight anyone.
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If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.
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Young he was not, so that one had to call him old, but the word did not suit him.
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You are not your cluster of memorized ideas about yourself. Awareness of this dissolves both the cluster and the belief that others can control you. If you have a self-image of being a desirable person, others can control you by flattering it, but can they control if you have no such image?
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'He’s a fair man.'I looked at him, startled.'I said fair,' he repeated. 'Not likable.'I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.
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Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.
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When through the power of sight we see white, that which comes about in the soul through the act of seeing is a modification. And on the basis of this modification, we are able to say that the white which is affecting us exists.
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Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.
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Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it.
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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
