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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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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But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.
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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide,And folly into sin!
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I've always seen in Westerns it described or it's shown very vaguely, but I wanted this - I want us to show what they're doing to them, so you can actually see it. And if you notice in the movie, you know, it goes even beyond just scalping and stuff.
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Love sees with the heart and not with mind.
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I think you get less takes on TV than in movies.
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People always tell me I should run for president, but I don't think they'd give me enough time off to make my films.
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We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.
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Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
