John Milton Quotes
No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.

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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
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I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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When people don't get enough information, they make it up.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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The Amazons were notorious for their freedom: their sexual freedom, their freedom to hunt, to be outdoors, to go to war; and the Greeks, both men and women alike, were fascinated by these stories. Maybe it was a safe way to explore the idea of women who could be equals of men.
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The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?
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The brown paper bag test was well-known. Eddy always saw it as both shameful and ridiculous.
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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.