John Milton Quotes
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I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.
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There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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It's my new single - please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year.
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This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.
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Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
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New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
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Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.
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The problem is, that we've got a position, often times by the NRA that says any regulation whatsoever is the camel's nose under the tent. And that, I think, is not where the American people are at.
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It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.
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It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.
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It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.
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The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie.
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The Shari'a itself - this is possibly a kind of verbal debate - is understood to be something different from the Fiqh, and the Fiqh is the man-made element and the Shari'a is theoretically the divine element but it depends on one's personal beliefs.
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To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
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It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
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Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.
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Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.
