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'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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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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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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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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Hopefully the 2 mph advantage we have on the speed chart continues the same way in the race.
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In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.
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To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.
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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
