John Milton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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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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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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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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It makes me proud to help girls realize that they don't have to change who they are.
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I'm looking forward to free skiing the most. Just groomers, big wide groomers making nice big turns.
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It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract.
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My family is Chilean, and I was born there. By the time I was four, we were living in San Antonio, Texas, and I just remember picking a blue bonnet and getting yelled at by some guy with a sheriff hat and a badge. I was traumatized. He told me it was the state flower, and I wasn't supposed to be messin' with it.
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I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.
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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
