John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
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I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
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I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.
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I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.
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Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
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I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
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Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.
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When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
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The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.
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When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
