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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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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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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If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.
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When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring.
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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
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The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.
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I have been so misused by chaste men with one wife, that I would live with satyrs all my life.
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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
