John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.
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But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess, That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!
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Every savage can dance.
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The history of colonisation cannot disappear.
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I don't watch that much football... I really like to play it.
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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
