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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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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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 now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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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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I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.
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Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.
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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
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Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
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Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
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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.
