John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
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In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.
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Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
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Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
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How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!
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My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
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My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.
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My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.
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See! This our fathers did for us.
