John Milton Quotes
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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I've learned never say never.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I write music every day.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I take my work seriously.
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When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
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You can ask me anything you want; I'm very opinionated... except about my private life. I don't want to talk about that.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
