John Ruskin Quotes
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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I'll never have to write my memoirs now after reading this. She had six husbands, at least six lovers - why, my life is so dull compared to hers! I've had one husband, one daughter, one house and no lovers.
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Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.
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I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn. One of the things we try to do is educate individuals that knowing information is empowering.
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I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'
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Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.
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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
