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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Your average game show host on TV, for instance, doesn't believe himself to be banal. He actually thinks that he's quite interesting. And if you look at the viewing figures, so do an enormous number of people in this country.
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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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I can only speak for myself, but you never set out to be funny. You just set out to play the scenes real, and hopefully the funny comes.
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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
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I'm definitely an indoor kid who's turned into an inside person.
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I think one key part of doing more with less is to be more strategic, to realize what the objectives you're truly trying to accomplish are and then to drive with greater focus towards those objectives.
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And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
