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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I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.
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There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.
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Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
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From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
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See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.
