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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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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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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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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What matters to me is to find rational solutions for those that are facing difficulties so that France preserves jobs and its ability to innovate.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
