John Milius Quotes
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Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
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The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'
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When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.
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What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.
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I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.
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I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.
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I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5' 8, I was shorter than most girls in the business. Still, I gave it a shot, and like with most things in my life, I never gave up.
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If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.
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I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
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Put together, what we want is a system that supports, protects, and properly pays good teachers and makes it possible in a responsible and fair way to remove teachers judged to be incompetent or abusive - that's it.
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I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.
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And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.
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You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.
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I drink coffee 30 minutes before I want to nap. I think that really helps.
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Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
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I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.
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The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.
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'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.
