John Milton Quotes
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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We just here to do our job.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
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I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.
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You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.
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Michigan State means so much to my life and me.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in.
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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
