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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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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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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People don't know my real self, and they're not about to find out.
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To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.
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Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'
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See! This our fathers did for us.