John Milton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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It should be mandatory that any tax breaks go through appropriate committees and be voted on separately by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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Some people feel like women should dress in a way that doesn't promote attention-seeking. But this is just my body. My body in itself isn't only sexual.
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I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue.
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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
