John Ruskin Quotes
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
F. Murray Abraham -
I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
Kate Mulgrew -
'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
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.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
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.
A. R. Rahman -
Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
Adam Grant
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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.
Jackie Chan -
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
Carl Bernstein -
I always eat a huge breakfast on match days even though my stomach hates it.
Venus Williams -
You have to be very vocal about being willing to fight anyone.
Daniel Cormier -
If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.
Hans Vestberg -
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?
Vernon Howard
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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.
Octavia E. Butler -
Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.
Anthony de Mello -
The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.
Leo Strauss -
I am not a rhetorician, but a man of action.
Auguste Rodin -
When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
Jeanette Winterson -
I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
Paloma Elsesser
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Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down.
Jimmy Durante -
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
Alan Paton -
I do not wish to depreciate his great gifts and attainments in a country which unfortunately, if I may say so without offense, is suffering from a temporary lack of leading men.
Eleftherios Venizelos -
There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
John Ruskin