John Ruskin Quotes
When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house – hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.
Quotes to Explore
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?
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Music is geometry in time.
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It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.
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Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.
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The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop. That's who you are!
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house – hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.
