John Milton Quotes
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.
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I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.
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Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.
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You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.
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We're really blessed that we've been as well received as we have been.
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That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude. The site gets its 'hit' and you know more about our species' diversity.
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We in the Western world have grown to understand matter as imprisoned light, and light as liberated matter, yet this has had no influence on our spiritual thought. In practical terms it only led to the creation of the atom bomb.
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They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.
