John Ruskin Quotes
All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
Quotes to Explore
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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I think it's the land. The streams, the forests, the vast emptiness. The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots. But I have a love for humankind, a love of truth, and a love of justice. I think I have a dualistic nature. I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.
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I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.
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All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
