John Ruskin Quotes
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
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Many of our countrymen came to hate the war we fought. Those who hated it the most—the professionally sensitive—were not, in the end, sensitive enough to differentiate between the war and the soldiers who had been ordered to fight it. They hated us as well, and we went to ground in the cross fire, as we had learned in the jungles.
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The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.
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What's so important with fashion imagery and with imagery in general is that it ultimately evokes an emotion.
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Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?
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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!
