John Ruskin Quotes
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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It's funny: I kinda still float under the radar. I'm not tall like a New York Knick; I'm not a heavy, strong New York Giant or New York Jet. I blend in pretty well. A lot of people don't recognize me too many places. More men recognize me than women.
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I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand him either, but I read everything he writes.
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There's this moment happening in our culture where the power of the audience and the influence that people of color have is undeniable at this point.
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
