John Ruskin Quotes
If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.
Quotes to Explore
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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The fans treated me royally.
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Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the opportunity to use S.B.A. products to fill that gap in a rapid manner, as we ended up doing in the Recovery Act.
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I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.
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I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.
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I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
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I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.
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I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.
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Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.
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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
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I always hated the part when I had to look pretty. I love that I don't have to look pretty.
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If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.
