John Milton Quotes
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
Quotes to Explore
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.
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I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.
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I discovered that acting gave me this spark, this thing. Honestly, it was a way to survive.
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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
