John Ruskin Quotes
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
Quotes to Explore
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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You must know what you are capable of.
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I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.
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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
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Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.
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We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.
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How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
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The rites were just the husks left over from deeper things, no pith remaining and no mystery, nothing to lift up the soul or go to the brain like wine. And, as generally happens, the more truth the ritual lost the more they bolstered it with significance. There is a saying among the Moi: The chief is clad in gold and purple, only the god dares to go naked.
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CALLINGWind rocksthe porch chairsomebody home.
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Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and de-limited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules, and games we call Civilisation … the rules and the games are often absurd and farcical - sometimes they are tragic - yet we tacitly acknowledge that they are necessary.
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Sometimes it's forgotten that players are coming to college to get a degree.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
