John Ruskin Quotes
Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.
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If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
