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 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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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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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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I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.
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Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day.
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A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.
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Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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As a child, I spent a lot of summers going to the beach with family friends.
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
