John Milton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
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Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
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I know it's become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there's plenty of examples of things that use the form in a fascinating way. Things that are more surreal or artistic, like 'Katamari Damacy' or 'Vib-Ribbon.'
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I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.
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I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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David Cameron has a different style to Gordon Brown.
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.
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I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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The first job of a leader-at work or at home-is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.
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Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.
