John Milton Quotes
The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
Quotes to Explore
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
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There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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Women need to think about where they've been, where they are, where they're going, and how they're going to get there.
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If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
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I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it.
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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
