John Milton Quotes
Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.
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I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience.
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We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
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If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think.
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
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The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.
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Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
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A good song is a good song.
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At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.
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The cool thing about those small-budget movies is that there's a tremendous amount of freedom the filmmakers have since there's less money at stake.
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You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'
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Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face.
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In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.
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You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.
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A charger's saddle is an exalted throne, the best companions are books alone.
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
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To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
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Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.
