John Milius Quotes
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
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I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
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I'm one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.
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I wasn't a great background singer.
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A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
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People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.
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Music and love are the wings of the soul.
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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
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Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.
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You can hate me, but why knock my hustle? I'ma be the queen no matter how they shuffle.
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Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
