John Ruskin Quotes
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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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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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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 wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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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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It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.
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The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.
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I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.
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My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences.
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When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
