John Ruskin Quotes
Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use it as a technology, not as an investment, unless you know what you're doing.
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, 'If the Everleighs doesn't sell, I'm finished with writing forever.' I was going to get an office job.
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My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind...
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.
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Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.
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If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.
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Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.
