John Ruskin Quotes
See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.
Quotes to Explore
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.
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I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.
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I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.
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When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
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I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.
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You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.
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For me, what really excites me about my characters and what pushes their core is the kind of dark, sad side of life.
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I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.
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See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.
