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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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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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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As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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I'm a normal guy.
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The main relationship in the whole series was the one between the camera and Fleabag. I had to convince myself that whoever was watching on the other side of the camera was instantly complicit with Fleabag and instantly a friend of hers.
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Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care.
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
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See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.
