John Milton Quotes
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.
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I hate being too pretty.
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People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.
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It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
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But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience.
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I'm glad that people know my military service. But, like this nation, we are more than our military. And the rest of our story is the same as the rest of my story.
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The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.
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I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.
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Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.
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They also serve who only stand and wait.
