John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.
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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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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
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I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.
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I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
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I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.
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Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.
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Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
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There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.
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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
