Rick Rubin Quotes

I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.

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• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Nature
  • Water

• We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Nature

• I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Day

• True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Nature
  • Happiness

• Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Women
  • Power
  • Nature

• Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • True
  • Nature
  • Lie

• Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hidden

• Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Human Nature

• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Garden

• Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Heaven

• A questioner asks: If human nature is evil, then where do ritual and rightness come from? I reply: ritual and rightness are always created by the conscious activity of the sages.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Evil

• All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Real
  • History
  • Nature

• We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Long
  • Nature

• One might say: art shows us the miracles of nature. It is based on the concept of the miracles of nature.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Art
  • Nature

• Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Nature
  • Hope
  • Fear

• By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound,

  

  Adam Smith
  • Different
  • Nature

• There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.

  

  Arthur Keith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.

  

  Arthur Keith
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Experience

• You can't lay down any pattern for God. There are many different ways of bringing people into his Kingdom, even some ways that I specially dislike! I have therefore learned to be cautious in my judgment.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • God
  • Different

• I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Love
  • Weakness
  • Meat

• There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • True
  • Yourself

• I have to thank Eddie Murphy, 'cause after I saw him do the Klumps in Nutty Professor II, I said, 'I'm going to try my hand at a female character.' It was the brilliance of Eddie Murphy. I need to write him a check. Say thank you

  

  Tyler Perry
  • Character
  • Hand

• I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.

  

  Rick Rubin
  • Nature
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  • Repeated