John Ruskin Quotes
You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.
Quotes to Explore
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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Florentine had grown more or less immune to the charms of spring.
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She was a student of history, valued the lessons of it. The worst atrocities began with half-measures, with apologies, compromising with the wrong side, shrinking from what had to be done.
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You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.
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I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.
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God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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I love food. I'm a big food person. I'm really passionate about eating good food all the time.
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There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.
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There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.
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He could chafe against the rich and privileged but he acknowledged that the army had taken him from the gutter and put an officer's sash round his waiste and Sharpe could think of no other job that would offer a low-born bastard on the run from the law the chance of rank and responsibility.
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Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
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If we can just be brave enough to be each others mirror, we may finally recognize the face of conscious that we fear.
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I think I had only been working nine months when I got Star Trek, and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like villain in Batman, or a Hobbit, or whatever it is.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We’re all spiraling out of control.
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You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.
