John Ruskin Quotes
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
Quotes to Explore
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.
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You can make a really good film for under a million dollars, like 'October Baby,' or under a half million, like 'Hardflip.'
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Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.
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Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they're all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.
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Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
