John Milton Quotes
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
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The very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.
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Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution, a perception.
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I think George Will is somebody that said recently that the Republicans will not lose, as a Republican, that the Republicans will not win the election. I think it was a terrible statement.
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It's good to be slightly ambitious, but I believe one shouldn't be too calculative. It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.
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I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.
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We're not going to win every single one.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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When you're out on the road touring and touring and then making records, you're just constantly looking forward, constantly working. You don't really stop to look at where you are or where you've been.
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Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
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We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.
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I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.
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Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.
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I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.
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You're talking about a different standard when a team wins 60 games.
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The most insidious part of fame for April wasn't that other people dehumanized her; it was that she dehumanized herself. She came to see herself not as a person but as a tool.
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
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Led Zeppelin is just a bunch of stupid idiots who wrote cool riffs.
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
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Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
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Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.
