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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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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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.
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I love faces that have freckles. I love faces that have wrinkles. For me, beauty is naturalism, I guess.
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The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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There's always been a celebration of what is that moment, whoever I am at that moment in my life. It is a very real way of looking at beauty.
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Best and dearest flower that grows, / Perfect both to see and smell; / Words can never, never tell / Half the beauty of a Rose - .
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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.