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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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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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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You can feel very strongly that someone doesn't like you. I think any model who didn't have the same sort of upbringing as me would find that very difficult. But I absolutely knew I was entitled. I never thought I was ugly - it never crossed my mind.
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It's interesting to see these lives from places I may never go unfold on screen.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.
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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.
