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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I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.
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Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
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I know of no mission more worthwhile than serving the men and women who have so honorably served their nation.
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Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.
