John Ruskin Quotes
It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.
Quotes to Explore
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.
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Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
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Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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Anything that is profoundly energy-shifting - like having a child - is fodder for creative thought. So for me, I welcome it and look straight into it as something to learn from.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.
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I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.
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Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.
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It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.
