John Milton Quotes
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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I am an abolitionist. What does this mean? Abolitionist resistance and resilience draws from a legacy of black-led anti-colonial struggle in the United States and throughout the Americas, including places like Haiti, the first black republic founded on the principles of anti-colonialism and black liberation.
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It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?
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Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.
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When in doubt, it is better to do the less conservative thing and to err on the side of the more colorful, possibly terrible mistake. That comes from thinking of yourself as a writer.
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Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
