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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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 literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.
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I hate pockets in trousers … By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.
