John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I do that every week for my 'War Stories' documentary series - and when FOX News wants - I go off and cover the young Americans we send to places like Afghanistan or Iraq.
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All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
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I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.
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I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.
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Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
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You're just mad 'cause I got my dick sucked, and my balls licked.
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Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.
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If enough individuals are full of despair and anger in their hearts, there will be violence in the streets. If enough individuals are full of greed and fear in their hearts, there will be racism and oppression in society. You can't remove the external social symptoms without treating the corresponding internal personal diseases...Pope Francis draws our attention to the 'invisible thread' of the market, which he describes as 'the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.' This mentality generates inequality, which in turn generates 'a violence which no police, military, or intelligence resources can control'...changed individuals cross racial, religious, ethnic, class or political boundaries to build friendships. These friendship work like sutures, healing wounds in the social fabric. They 'humanize the other,' making it harder for groups to stereotype or scapegoat. They create little zones where the beloved community is manifest...They help people envision the common good--a situation where all are safe, free, and able to thrive. As my friend Shane Claiborne says, our problem isn't that rich people don't care about poor people; it's that all too often, rich people don't know any poor people. Knowing one another makes interpersonal change and reconciliation possible.
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I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.
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There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.
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The goal of life is to gain an idea of what life is. In the absolute sense, of course, that changes nothing, according to the priests - but it helps our journey.
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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
