John Ruskin Quotes
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
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Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.
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I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
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The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they frown on language - it's always 'Too many words.'
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Obviously ,you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it's on your stick.
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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
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There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.
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It is not 'scientism' to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon did once rule in France and the Holocaust actually happened. Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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While there are worldly singularities, there are Christian and salutary ones, too; and this singularity by which one is differentiated from the crowd who tread the broad path is what constitutes the straight and narrow path of the Gospels. ... Holy things will never be established or reestablished so long as we have this fear of appearing singular.
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The light came through the window, Straight from the sun above, And so inside my little room There plunged the rays of Love.In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me.
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There are two great fundamental problems common to all thought: (i) the problem of world- and life-affirmation and world- and life-negation, and (2) the problem of ethics and the relations between ethics and these two forms of man's spiritual attitude to Being.
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Sí, es necesario padecer, aún en vano, para no vivir en vano.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden "A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
