John Milton Quotes
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.
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I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.
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I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
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Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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John Parsons: Don’t you think such a theory, such a radical theory, is anti-social?
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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
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Yeah 'n' I'm doin' all right in school. They ain't said I broke no rule. I ain't never been in Dutch. I don't browse around too muchDon't bother me leave me alone Anyway I'm almost grown
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I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.
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In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age.
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Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.
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We recognize the significant burden on patients from continued, rising insurance premiums and being forced increasingly to pay the full list price for medicines at the pharmacy counter.
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What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?
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That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.
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Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument.
