John Milton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
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I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.
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If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
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Every text assumes a reader.
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I have the right temperament. I have the right leadership. I've built an incredible company. I went to a great school. I came out - I built an incredible company. I wrote the number one selling business book of all time: 'Trump: The Art of the Deal.'
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I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
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Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.
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You eat the burger but you don't want the slaughterhouse next door to where you live.
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Someone asked me what are the secrets to my success, and I said 'There are three: Timing, timing, timing.'
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I have to lead a very small life in terms of what people think 'Hollywood' is. It's a full life for me, but I'm not jetting across the world. But life is good.
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I've never met Charlie Sheen.
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And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
