John Ruskin Quotes
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
Quotes to Explore
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
