John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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And yet it moves.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.
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It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
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I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
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If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
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I will not be a slave to my yesterday. I am creator, not a parrot.
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If you can look at one of these waves and you don't believe that there's something greater than we are, then you've got some serious analyzing to do and you should go sit under a tree for a very long time.
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Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.
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I love dressing up, though I have to hide my rubbish hair in a hat.
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Αἰόλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων κακά,πόνου δ᾽ ἴδοις ἂν οὐδαμοῦ ταὐτὸν πτερόν.
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I myself can think of a dozen ways to annihilate all living persons within one hour.
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When God shuts a door, He opens a window.
