John Milius Quotes

'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.

John Milius

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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.

  

  Ilya Yashin
  • Violence
  • Will
  • Storm

• 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.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Now
  • Surprise
  • France

• 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.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Woman

• Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Sought

• I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Used

• No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Spring
  • Flowers

• 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.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Power
  • Yourself
  • Photography

• 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.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

  

  Larry David
  • Night
  • Place
  • Fish

• 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.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Business

• If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Business
  • Think
  • Want

• I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.

  

  Wendell H. Ford
  • Books
  • Read
  • Personally

• 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.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Good
  • Together
  • Want

• I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • I Love
  • Director
  • Fantastic

• Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Up
  • Truth

• They made you think that, what you need is what they sellin',Made you think that buying is rebelling.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine

• In every government there must be somewhat fundamental, somewhat like a Magna Charta, that should be standing and unalterable... that parliaments should not make themselves perpetual is a fundamental.

  

  Oliver Cromwell

• ...an Empire now crashing about their ears. The Sikh smiled at the vanity of human aspirations.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• Better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.

  

  Anne Hutchinson
  • Church

• everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.

  

  E. Nesbit
  • Ends
  • Ifs

• The only shame is to have none.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Shame

• All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...

  

  Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
  • Life
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop

• 'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.

  

  John Milius