John Milton Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.
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God is no more intimidated by childish demands for instant gratification than are wise parents.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.
