John Milton Quotes
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
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One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
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A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
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In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.
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I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
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It is difficult to say which is more menacing. But both of [points of war danger -Japan and Germany] exist and both are smoldering. In comparison with these two principal focal points of the war danger, the Italo-Ethiopian war represents an episode.
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In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.
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Cheap Drunk: An Autobiography (2002)
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Happiness is The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope.
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The brazen throat of war.
