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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Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
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I look back on the influence my dad had on my life and career, and I just try to take the best parts of what he had.
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A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.
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I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven't read my work before, to get a new perspective.
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You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal.
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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.
